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      Operations and Planning Assistance Training Teams and a minimalist approach to counterinsurgency

      El Salvador

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      Operations and Planning Assistance Training Teams and a minimalist approach to counterinsurgency
      ByCecil E. Bailey
      BookRoutledge Handbook of U.S. Counterterrorism and Irregular Warfare Operations

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2021
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 15
      eBook ISBN 9781003164500
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      ABSTRACT

      This chapter describes the important role that U.S. Operations and Planning Assistance Training Teams (OPATTs) played in helping the El Salvadoran government successfully end its 12-year civil war in 1992. This “minimalist” approach to counterinsurgency is occasionally referred to as the “Salvador Model” and often touted as a success, yet it could have been far more effective had the OPATTs been employed at the beginning of the war. The chapter describes how the field advisory mission evolved into the creation of the OPATTs, a wholly unique organization at the time. It also discusses some of the challenges the mission faced, including a lack of unity of effort and an arbitrary and low “manpower limit” that constrained the program’s effectiveness.

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