> <i>In essence we find that the Army needs CAP officers trained and
equipped to give competent professional advice to commanders on how
proposed military operations will advance or retard the political and
economic objectives of the U.S. Government in stability operations.</i><p>> <i>We believe that the CAP concept should be integral throughout
the Army with lodgments in CofS, ODCSOPS, OCRD/ARO, COMRC, CDC,
and other major commands down to division level.</i><p>How does this differ from the "Political Commissar" in the Comintern tradition?<p>(Hmmm: do former soviet manuals, like the US FM series, exist online, such that it might be possible to directly compare?)