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Pushing this type of knowledge to a wider base of Soldiers may be a new expansion of this program, but they are not quite as behind as it might seem from this article. We have sent at least two Agricultural Development Teams from the Arkansas Guard in the past 3 years or whatever. I believe the second team recently got back so the first team deployed a minimum of two years ago now. IIRC, they are comprised of Soldiers within the state (and possible augmented from outside) who work on or run their own farms already and don't require much training at all to take those skills and transfer them to Afghanistan. A platoon or similar sized security element goes with them.
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For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the [terrorists] -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.
-D. W. Brogan, The American Character
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