I recently did a tour in Iraq as a military advisor to an Iraqi Army Unit in Baghdad. It was a rewarding but trying experience as cultural differences challenged us in every aspect of our mission. The difficulty mostly lie in the power of soft persuasion as we tried to encourage behavioral changes in the operational processes used by our Iraqi counterparts who were slow or hesitant on the uptake of new ideas. My father also experienced these same issues when he was a MAC-V advisor in...read more

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