Afghan War Blog

James F. Jeffrey explains in the March/April 2015 issue of  Foreign Policy   "Why Counterinsurgency Doesn't Work" . He says ...

Detachment 82, Security Force Assistance Advisory Team of the 80th Training Command completed the demobilization process at Fort Bliss, Tex...

The  Security Force Assistance  (SFA) mission is a difficult one. Members of ISAF are expected to deploy to Afghanistan and train, advise,...

Two Captains who recently completed a tour of duty in Regional Command East have wrote a paper about their time on their respective Securi...

Security Force Assistance Advisor Team (SFAAT) 200 advises and assists the  705th Afghan Border Police (ABP) Zone Hqs with responsibility...

Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Two Five (NMCB 25) are currently involved in a train, advise, and assist (TAA) mission with ...

A Security Force Assistance Advisory Team (SFAAT) accompanied their Afghan National Army (ANA) counterparts on a clearing operation in th...

While the nation and world is focused on events in the Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and elsewhere; in the country of Afghanistan members of the In...

In the photo to the left are members of the Security Force Assistance Adviser Team (SFAAT) of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain ...

The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness has published "Guidance on Common Training Standards for Se...

SFAAT meets with OCC-R at FOB Lighting (Photo by CPT John Goodwill, 3rd BCT, 10th Mountain A Security Force Assistance Advisor Team or ...

A Battery, 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division won the Henry A. Knox award. T...

A video entitled Functionally-based Security Force Assistance (SFA) by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The briefing is...

1LT  Robert Krueger is a logistical advisor to his Afghan counterparts in Parwan province, Afghanistan. Based on Bagram Air Field he advi...

Photo by SGT Eric Provost Members of 4th Brigade, 201st ANA Corps at FOB Gamberi in Laghman province have recently completed a month-lo...

The latest version (7 Dec 13) of the COMISAF (CAAT) Security Force Assistance (SFA) Bibliography is now available. The CAAT SFA Bibliograp...

A Security Force Advise and Assist Team or SFAAT is now advising provincial officials and members of the Afghan National Security Forces (A...

More and more SFABs and their SFAATs are deploying to Afghanistan. One of the latest SFABs is 4th Brigade 10th Mountain Division. Read mor...

A video has been released by DVIDS which features a SFAAT from the Hawaiian National Guard deployed in Afghanistan assisting the ANP in cou...