Upstream engagement and downstream entanglements: The assumptions, opportunities, and threats of partnering

Robert Johnson

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2014, vol. 25, issue 3, 647-668

Abstract: This article addresses Western recruitment and management of personnel from non-Western countries in armed forces as part of a strategy of state stabilisation, examining its risks and benefits. ‘SFA’ (Security Forces Assistance) to indigenous forces has long been practised by the West and seems to have returned in recent years in a new form with the creation of armies in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, while providing cheap, proxy substitutes for the West and offering opportunities for state-building, the policy creates its own problems and can have significant, negative consequences.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2014.913755

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