As an aspiring Green Beret in the U.S. Army Special Forces Qualification Course, I was taught how to prepare a program of instruction for an indigenous partner force. I learned to assess which aspects of our partner’s organization and tactics are working and retain them, even if they differ from our own.
This was a lesson I only glimpsed as a young infantry lieutenant in Ukraine and later lucidly observed in Afghanistan after having earned my green beret 1 year later. As a result, I was perplexed to see Erik Kramer and Paul Schneider — both Green Berets with deploymentsThe post Ukraine Doesn’t Need U.S. Contractors appeared first on War on the Rocks.