Anderson, LTG Joseph
and MAJ Matthew McCreary. “International Security Assistance Force Joint
Command 2014: The Year of Change”, Military
Review, January-February 2015, pages 16-25. This paper describes the transition
from SFA to FbSFA and the ‘thinning up’ of the advisory effort with the ANSF
taking place at the same time that a significant retrograde of personnel,
equipment and closing of bases was happening. The article is essentially
correct but takes too much credit for transition that had already transpired in
2013 – such as thinning up, move to Functionally-based Security Force Assistance, and advising at the higher echelons
vice district center and kandak level. This editors’ opinion is that 50% of the
credit taken in the paper was for work already completed in 2013. But . . . the paper by the commander of IJC is a good historical document for
those who want background info or who are writing academic papers or books on the advisory effort in the Afghan conflict.
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