the identification of a proponent with the responsibility and
authority to supervise and coordinate the advisor mission. The
E-G-O construct applied across the advisory effort will align
advising organizations and mission intent, allowing subordinate
elements to organize their training, education, and manage-
ment frameworks, while also identifying desired advisors in an
appropriate time. Such EGO alignment would identify poten-
tial supporting and supported missions, and ensure tasks could
be methodically planned across the instruments of national
power. As this grand advising strategy is understood across the
advising or greater foreign policy effort, US entities will be
better positioned to pick, choose, and deconflict their efforts.
Notes:
This article is based off of the personal observations of Lieu-
tenant Colonel Ceasar M. Achico, USMC, the legal advisor
for the Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance
( JCISFA). He participated in this Working Group effort in
collaboration with JCISFA Lesson Learned Chief, LTC James
Jenkins.
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Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance
( JCISFA), a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Controlled
Activity (CCA) that acts through Joint Staff J7, Joint Force De-
velopment. JCISFA supports the integration of Security Force
Assistance (SFA) capabilities into the current and future Joint
Force in order to advance joint warfighting capability.
3
"New Administration Demands Security Cooperation
Accountability," JCISFA Newsletter - Issue #3, pp. 4-6,
https://jcisfa.jcs.mil/Members/Portal/view_insight.aspx?In-
sight=6046&statusPublished, February 2017.
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See also, “Work Group 7: Strengthening Security Force
Assistance Joint Force Management Processes and Procedures,”
PKSOI Peace and Stability Journal, p.32, Volume 5,Issue 4, July
2015.
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