‘Outside their expertise’: The implications of Field Manual 3-24 for the professional military education of non-commissioned officers

James Hasík

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2014, vol. 25, issue 5-6, 1055-1062

Abstract: Within the framework of classical theory, the joint US Army-Marine field manual Counterinsurgency (FM 3-24) described an ambitious set of skills required for success against guerrillas. But if counterinsurgency, as FM 3-24 describes it, is ‘the graduate level of warfare’, then these two military services have been for years systematically failing to train their talent in the appropriate fields. In today's small wars, NCOs serve as modern-day Mounties, and consequently require at least a modest undergraduate education in armed good governance.

Date: 2014
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