text: Chapter 2
  * What time constraints do multinational partners have?
  * What time constraints (if any) does the partner FSF have?
  SFA FORCES AND ADVISING CONSIDERATIONS
  2-103. Conventional and SFO are the two main resources the Army utilizes to conduct SFA. Army
  regionally aligned forces, security force assistance brigades, the State Partnership Program, and digital liaison
  detachments represent the bulk of conventional forces that can execute SFA. ARSOF that execute SFA
  normally consist of special forces, military information support operations, and civil affairs. ARSOF
  coordination for the integration of SC capabilities is done by, with, and through the U.S. Army Special
  Operations Command and the theater special operations command.
  2-104. Regionally aligned forces provide the combatant command with tailored, responsive, and
  consistently available Army forces. They meet combatant command requirements for scalable, tailored
  capabilities to support operational missions, military exercises, and theater SC activities. They represent those
  Army units assigned to combatant commands, allocated to a combatant command, and those capabilities
  distributed and prepared by the Army for combatant command regional missions. Assigned units have a
  regional mission and training focus, including emerging operations, security cooperation activities, and
  exercises. They are the combatant commander’s primary sourcing solution if capabilities match. Theater
  army planners should consider the time and resources required to familiarize and train the regionally aligned
  force on—
  * Partner nation capabilities and desired capacity goals.
  * Advising, assessments, monitoring, and evaluation.
  * Partner nation culture and language training (especially if deploying without interpreter support).
  * Strategic objectives and end states for the United States and partner FSF.
  SECURITY FORCE ASSISTANCE BRIGADE
  2-105. The security force assistance brigade (SFAB) is the Army’s dedicated conventional organization for
  conducting SFA, and its capabilities allow it to execute SFA developmental activities with the partner FSF
  in conjunction with unified action partners anywhere in the world. The SFAB complements the DOS, foreign
  area officers, ARSOF, regionally aligned forces, SA teams, State Partnership Program, digital liaison
  detachments, and other unified action partner activities to expand access and create options for senior military
  and civilian leaders. During competition and campaigning, each combatant command is allocated a persistent
  SFAB force package. Conducting security cooperation activities under the threshold of armed conflict, the
  SFAB often falls under operational and administrative control of the theater army. The combatant commander
  assigns tactical- or operational-level SFA developmental activities to the SFAB. Advisor teams can establish
  relationships among other conventional force partners to enable the rapid integration of other multinational
  forces that may be essential during future multidomain operations (ATP 3-96.1).
  STATE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
  2-106. The State Partnership Program (SPP) is a joint DOD SC program authorized by 10 USC, Section
  341, and governed by DODI 5111.20. The SPP is managed by the National Guard Bureau, executed by the
  combatant commands, and sourced by the National Guard of the states and territories. The SPP links a State’s
  National Guard with a partner nation’s military, security forces, and disaster response organizations in a
  cooperative, mutually beneficial relationship. SPP is one of the few SC programs authorized to engage across
  the spectrum of country governmental organizations and is a multi-categorization SC tool.
  DIGITAL LIAISON DETACHMENT
  2-107. Digital liaison detachments are assigned or attached to selected theater armies for employment at
  the theater army or in support at corps and division echelons. These teams provide SFA to the partner FSF
  through digital information management and communications interface capability for U.S. systems with a
  subordinate or parallel joint and multinational headquarters in an operational area. Digital liaison