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  and included in the plan. Since the build/rebuild activity often involves physical construction and protection
  of facilities, effectiveness will also depend on the allocation of adequate resources by the host nation.
  ADVISE
  2-70. Advise refers to all SFA activities that provide subject matter expertise, guidance, advice, and counsel
  to a partner FSF while carrying out the missions assigned to the unit or organization. Advising may occur
  across the executive, generating, and operating functional structure, under combat or administrative
  conditions, and in support of individuals or groups. SFA advisors provide executive, generating, and
  operating functional expertise to the partner FSF in the development, sustainment, and employment of their
  security enterprise to meet their national security needs, in support of U.S. interests. Advising establishes a
  personal and a professional relationship where trust and confidence define how well the advisor will be able
  to influence the partner FSF.
  Note. In the context of advising the governance function, the DOD provides experts to advise
  processes such as the national security and foreign policy core process described earlier. Other
  core processes, like authorizations, routinely involve other USG entities (JP 3-20).
  SFA CONFLICT INTEGRATION ACTIVITIES
  2-71. Commanders must provide clear intent to their advisors to allow them flexibility to execute their
  mission with the foreign security force. The proximity of the advisors, intensity of the conflict, frequency of
  contact, and various legal considerations provide the broad context for SFA operations (ATP 3-96.1). Advisor
  teams will adjust their level of integration into the foreign security force’s formations and the level of support
  and liaison provided based on mission requirements.
  ADVISE
  2-72. Advising is the bridging activity that connects OTEBA developmental activities in competition to
  support and liaison integration activities with a partner force in armed conflict.
  Advisors shape an OE by strengthening allies and building lasting partnerships. Advisors increase host-nation
  capability through joint exercises, and they remain ready to support the partnered force’s operations and
  modernization in conjunction with other instruments of national power. When directed, SFA advisors
  conduct support and liaison activities to enable multinational operations during armed conflict (FM 3-0).
  SUPPORT
  2-73. Support is defined as the action of a force that aids, protects, complements, or sustains other forces in
  accordance with a directive requiring such action (JP 1, Volume 2). SFA advisor teams support the partner
  FSF with capabilities and capacity to enable mission success. In the transition to armed conflict, embedded
  SFA advisors, with their unique knowledge of the region and partner FSF capabilities, support and enable an
  agile response by the joint force in the rapid transition to combat operations (JP 3-0).
  2-74. SFA forces co-located or embedded with the partner FSF support and enable synchronization of
  activities, fill key capability gaps, and help to ensure unity of purpose and mutual support in offensive
  operations.
  LIAISE
  2-75. Liaison is that contact or intercommunication maintained between elements of military forces or other
  agencies to ensure mutual understanding and unity of purpose and action (FM 6-0). SFA liaison teams work
  to increase understanding of mission and tactics with other forces, convey information, enhance mutual trust,
  and improve teamwork (JP 3-08).
  2-76. The ability to monitor and coordinate are the two most essential liaison functions. SFA advisors must
  be able to monitor the partner FSF unit to which they are assigned, as well as their own parent organization