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Never object to a stealing or copying a good idea! This comment with minor grammatical corrections is also added here from a previous post on the Blog.

Dave is on target again. BZ.

The Advisor Corps is a very bad idea.

He mentioned one item that triggered several recollections:I can recall numerous occasions while advising two separate and quite different host nations seeing their Officers seek the advice of those Advisers with recent experience regardless of rank while merely politely listening to those with cultural credibility and affinity, strong language skills and equal or greater rank and no recent combat, command or leadership experience. They very much preferred to socialize with the latter -- but they listened to the former...
Isn't Nagl's concept of an advisor corps *NOT* a career field/functional area, but a BCT advisory group assignment for 2-3 years at some point in the mix?

Would be like O/C duty, AC/RC, etc, not an advisor corps where one goes into and never comes out.

Most people tend to be arguing against the career field approach. That's not what Nagl wrote in his proposal.

I argue the worst thing he did to his argument is call it a "Corps", like acquisition or such. It is really an advisor unit, where people are assigned for limited duration.