Evaluating Military Cross-Cultural Training Programs

Increased emphasis on stability operations, counterinsurgency, and security cooperation during the conflicts in Afghanistan Iraq resulted programs to train educate U.S. military personnel foreign cultures intercultural competence. Now, with shift great power competition, Services have reduced or eliminated cultural training education requirements. Documenting approaches lessons from these is important maintain an institutional record for future, if when United States sees need better understand which its operates. The present study applied a framework qualitatively evaluating cross-cultural based science.