This, from a Canadian soldier "recently returned from a deployment with the Operational Mentoring and Liaison Team in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan".
Synopsis: the current approach to operational mentoring has some inherent flaws, and poses limitations on all our other military operations, that we're having difficulty recognizing for what they are. Partly this may be due to a lack of well-defined historical models.
The whole piece is a good read - happy to hear thoughts.....