'Well-Managed' Defense Ministries a Goal in DOD Security Cooperation Plans

By Sebastian Sprenger / May 27, 2008 at 5:00 AM
The Defense Department wants to help developing-world partner countries improve the management of their often-fragile or corrupt defense bureaucracies out of concern that foreign armies built up with U.S. help could one day turn against their governments, according to documents and sources. Helping transform allied nations' security organizations is one of eight security-cooperation objectives underpinning the recently signed Guidance for the Employment of the Force (GEF), according to a February 2008 set of unclassified DOD briefing slides describing the secret...

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