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Training Surrogate Forces in International Humanitarian JSOU Report 16-9 Training Surrogate Forces in International Humanitarian Law Paterson Law Humanitarian International in Forces Surrogate 16-9 Training Report JSOU JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS UNIVERSITY Patrick Paterson’s monograph, Training Surrogate Forces in Interna- tional Humanitarian Law: Lessons from Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, and Iraq, leverages the author’s vast experience in Latin American history to examine how U.S. Special Operations Forces (USSOF) train surrogate forces. He argues that it is necessary to employ United States Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM) indirect approach to grow and build partnership capacity through foreign internal defense (FID) and to find a balance with international humanitarian law (IHL). Paterson also examines the legal issues and restrictions on training and equipping foreign forces and the impact of these exchanges with our partners. His research methodology includes extensive interviews and incorporates a historical case study approach, examining FID efforts in Peru, Colombia, and El Salvador for lessons learned, and then compares and contrasts USSOF train and equip efforts in Iraq. Training Surrogate Forces in International Humanitarian Law: Joint Special Operations University Lessons from Peru, Colombia, 7701 Tampa Point Boulevard MacDill AFB FL 33621 El Salvador, and Iraq https://jsou.libguides.com/jsoupublications Patrick Paterson JSOU Report 16-9 ISBN 978-1-941715-09-3 Joint Special Operations University Brian A. Maher, Ed.D., SES, President Kenneth H. Poole, Ed.D., Director, Center for Special Operations Studies and Research Robert Nalepa, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force, Ret., Editor in Chief Frederick Zimmerman, Master Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps, Ret., JSOU Press Editor Peter McCabe, Ph.D., Political Science, Colonel, U.S. Air Force, Ret. Will Irwin, MMAS, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army, Ret. Paul Lieber, Ph.D., Mass Communication & Public Affairs; Resident Senior Fellows Joint Special Operations University Editorial Advisory Board and the Center for Special Operations Studies and Research Roby C. Barrett William W. Mendel The Joint Special Operations University (JSOU) provides its publications Ph.D., Middle Eastern & South Asian History Colonel, U.S. Army, Ret. Public Policy Center Middle East Institute and JSOU Senior Fellow to contribute toward expanding the body of knowledge about joint special JSOU Senior Fellow operations. JSOU publications advance the insights and recommendations Alvaro de Souza Pinheiro James J.F. Forest Major General, Brazilian Army, Ret. of national security professionals and the Special Operations Forces (SOF) Ph.D., Higher Education Administration JSOU Associate Fellow students and leaders for consideration by the SOF community and defense Associate Professor, School of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts James F. Powers, Jr. leadership. Lowell and JSOU Senior Fellow Colonel, U.S. Army, Ret. JSOU Senior Fellow JSOU is the educational component of the United States Special Opera- Mario Forestier tions Command (USSOCOM), MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. The JSOU Chief Warrant Officer, U.S. Army, Ret. Bryan C. Price mission is to educate SOF executive, senior, and intermediate leaders and Director, Joint Special Operations Command Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Center for Counterterrorism Studies Ph.D., Political Science selected other national and international security decision makers, both Director, Combating Terrorism Center at Thomas H. Henriksen West Point military and civilian, through teaching, outreach, and research in the Ph.D., History, Hoover Institution science and art of joint special operations. JSOU provides education to the Stanford University and JSOU Senior Fellow Richard H. Shultz, Jr. men and women of SOF and to those who enable the SOF mission in a joint Bernd Horn Ph.D., Political Science and interagency environment. Colonel, Canadian Dept. of National Defence, Ret. Director, International Security Ph.D., War Studies Studies Program, The Fletcher School, JSOU conducts research through its Center for Special Operations Director, CANSOFCOM Professional Tufts University and JSOU Senior Fellow Studies and Research (CSOSR) where effort centers upon the USSOCOM Development Centre Robert G. Spulak, Jr. mission: Russell D. Howard Ph.D., Physics/Nuclear Engineering Brigadier General, U.S. Army, Ret. Sandia National Laboratories USSOCOM mission. USSOCOM synchronizes the planning of Special Senior Research Fellow and adjunct professor, and JSOU Associate Fellow Operations and provides Special Operations Forces to support persistent, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and JSOU Senior Fellow Jessica Glicken Turnley networked, and distributed Geographic Combatant Command operations Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology in order to protect and advance our Nation’s interests. John D. Jogerst Galisteo Consulting Group Colonel, U.S. Air Force, Ret. and JSOU Senior Fellow James Kiras Press publications are available for download from the JSOU Library Rich Yarger Ph.D., History, School of Advanced Air and Space Ph.D., History web page located at https://jsou.libguides.com/jsoupublications. Studies, Air University and JSOU Associate Fellow JSOU Senior Fellow Training Surrogate Forces in International Humanitarian Law: Lessons from Peru, Colombia, El Salvador, and Iraq Patrick Paterson, Professor in Practice, National Defense University JSOU Report 16-9 The JSOU Press MacDill Air Force Base, Florida 2016 Comments about this publication are invited and should be forwarded to the Director of the Center for Special Operations Studies and Research, Joint Spe- cial Operations University, 7701 Tampa Point Blvd., MacDill AFB FL 33621. ******* The JSOU Center for Special Operations Studies and Research (CSOSR) is currently The views expressed in this publication are entirely those of the accepting written works relevant to special operations for potential publication. For author and do not necessarily reflect the views, policy, or position more information, please contact the CSOSR Director at [email protected]. Thank you for your interest in the JSOU Press. of the United States Government, Department of Defense, United States Special Operations Command, or the Joint Special Operations ******* University. This work was cleared for public release; distribution is unlimited. Authors are granted academic freedom. Such academic freedom empowers authors to offer new and sometimes controversial per- spectives in the interest of furthering debate on key issues. Printed in August 2016. ISBN 978-1-941715-09-3 Recent Publications of the JSOU Press Contents Assessing Special Operations Forces Language, Region, and Culture Needs— Leveraging Digital and LRC Learning to Reroute the “Roadmap” from Human Foreword ..........................................................................................................vii Terrain to Human Domain, August 2016, Robert R. Greene Sands The Asia Pivot: Implications for U.S. Special Operations Forces, July 2016, Russell About the Author ..........................................................................ix D. Howard and John P. Duvall, Jr. Acknowledgements .......................................................................xi Military Innovation in War: It Takes a Learning Organization. A Case Study of Task Force 714 in Iraq, July 2016, Richard Shultz Introduction .................................................................................. 1 2017 Special Operations Research Topics, June 2016 Unconventional Economics: Operational Economics in Unconventional Warfare, 1. A History of Foreign Internal Defense and the April 2016, Riley Post and Jeffrey D. Peterson Indirect Approach ......................................................................... 7 2016 Special Operations Essays, March 2016 2. Modern Warfare and International Humanitarian Law ............ 11 The War Within: A Look Inside al-Qaeda’s Undoing, February 2016, Jarret Brachman 3. Ethical and Legal Considerations in Training Improving the Sustainment of SOF Distributed Operations in Access-Denied Surrogate Forces ......................................................................... 19 Environments, January 2016, Robert Haddick SOF Role in Combating Transnational Crime, January 2016 4. U.S. Special Operations Command Doctrine on Human Rights and IHL ............................................................... 21 The Collapse of Iraq and Syria: The End of the Colonial Construct in the Greater Levant, December 2015, Roby C. Barrett 5. Joint Combined Exchange Training ......................................... 27 Tactical Operations for Strategic Effect: The Challenge of Currency Conversion, November 2015, Colin S. Gray 6. The Leahy Law ........................................................................ 33 Countering Violent Extremism in Mali, November 2015, Mark Moyar 7. Peru and the Rondas Campesinas ........................................... 39 On the cover. An Army Special Forces non-commissioned officer trains a Senegalese soldier in Mali, Africa, during a Flintlock exercise. Flintlock is a 8. Colombia and the Self-Defense Forces .................................... 49 biennial exercise intended to enhance African nations’ abilities to patrol and control their own territory and borders and to develop regional and military 9. The U.S. Indirect Approach in El Salvador ............................... 61 relationships. Photo by Technical Sergeant Victoria Meyer. 10. The U.S. Experience
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