Legionaires for Cultural Intelligence
Around the time when some in Congress were raising the specter of the draft, I wrote an article for HNN that suggested among a number of other possibilities, a " foreign legion" recruitment option. My focus at the time was having the U.S. pick up highly trained SOF vets from NATO and other allied armies with various inducements to expand our SOCOM forces rapidly without diluting quality nearly so much.
If CI is the primary goal, the inducements could be more modest. The Indian and Israeli Armies alone could provide us with far greater linguistic resources. So for that matter, could the French with their operational experience in the Mahgreb
Foreign Nationals in US military
Currently total 30,000 from 100 countries.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/ar...tary_services/
Like the Ghurka idea - though Nepal currently needs them a lot more than we do.