A short explanation of this part of preparing for a post-2014 role in Afghanistan:
SOAG’s mission is to train, advise, and mentor a senior staff headquarters within the Afghan security forces. Their creation and deployment signal a shift in strategy away from US and NATO leadership and toward developing senior Afghan planners and logisticians who can effectively manage the enormous security apparatus that the international community helped create over the last twelve years. NATO leadership believes that, at this stage in the conflict, it is best to develop the capacity of the senior headquarters to ensure that the lower level formations are employed properly
Link:http://foreign-intrigue.com/2014/08/...collaboration/

I am sure others will find it of value. apt phrases:
The important lesson that Commando-SOAG learnedfrom this is that outcomes are far more important than processes.