text: Chapter 4
  Successful Engagement: State Partnership Program
  The State Partnership Program supports the security cooperation objectives of CCDRs
  by developing enduring relationships with partner countries and carrying out activities
  to build partner capacity, improve interoperability, and enhance U.S. access and
  influence while increasing the readiness of U.S. and partner forces to meet emerging
  challenges. The program links a state’s National Guard with the partner nation’s
  military, security forces, and disaster response organizations in a cooperative
  relationship.
  Since the program’s inception in 1993 with the three Baltic Republics, it has expanded
  to encompass partnerships with 89 nations. Most of the earliest State Partnership
  Program partner countries in Europe have gone on to become U.S. allies in NATO,
  and many of them credit the State Partnership Program and their National Guard
  partners with helping make that possible. By building enduring relationships based on
  mutual trust and support, the State Partnership Program has expanded the pool of
  aligned global security providers and improved the capabilities of both U.S. Army units
  and partner nation militaries across the world.
  SECURITY COOPERATION
  4-41. Security cooperation is all Department of Defense interactions with foreign security establishments to
  build security relationships that promote specific United States security interests, develop allied and partner
  nation military and security capabilities for self-defense and multinational operations, and provide United
  States forces with peacetime and contingency access to allied and partner nations (JP 3-20). These efforts
  may include Army forces participating in joint and multinational exercises and employing regionally aligned
  forces. Conducting security cooperation is one of the Army’s primary stability tasks.
  4-42. Security cooperation is governed by the Foreign Assistance Act (22 United States Code [USC], 2151)
  and the Arms Export Control Act (22 USC, 2751) addressing DOD interactions with other nations. The
  Department of State is the lead agency for security sector assistance. All DOD security cooperation programs
  must nest with Department of State security sector guidance. (See JP 3-20 for more information on joint
  security cooperation and FM 3-22 for additional details on Army support to security cooperation.)
  4-43. Commanders and staffs conduct security cooperation to develop allied and other friendly military
  capabilities for self-defense and multinational operations, to improve information exchange and intelligence
  sharing, to provide U.S. forces with peacetime and contingency access, and to mitigate conditions that could
  lead to a crisis. Multiple types of security cooperation activities can often occur simultaneously with
  overlapping purposes. These activities include security assistance, security force assistance (SFA), foreign
  internal defense (FID), and support to security sector reform efforts.
  Security Assistance
  4-44. Security assistance is a group of programs the U.S. Government uses to provide defense articles,
  military training, and other defense-related services by grant, lease, loan, credit, or cash sales. Security
  assistance programs are typically focused on the transfer of defense articles and services to eligible foreign
  governments, the provision of training and education to foreign military personnel, and the sale of
  construction services in support of partner nations’ military establishments. Military education and training
  exchanges are invaluable for building interoperability and fostering trust over time between U.S. Army and
  partner personnel.
  Security Force Assistance
  4-45. Security force assistance is the Department of Defense activities that support the development of the
  capacity and capability of foreign security forces and their supporting institutions (JP 3-20). Security forces