The growing narrative in Washington that Security Assistance (SA) and Security Cooperation (SC) have outlived their usefulness is less a reflection of reality than of frustration with uneven results. The problem isn’t the tool itself, it’s how it’s being used. Declaring security cooperation obsolete risks discarding one of the United States’ most cost-effective instruments of global influence at precisely the moment great-power competition is intensifying.  The purpose of my research is to try to demonstrate that what makes Partner Nations to stop engaging with the United States are external factors such as competition with China especially with its investments in the West, lack of follow up with the Partner Nations, genuine interactions, corruption abroad and weak institutions in developing countries.  Funding to support our international military training programs have also dwindled and more red tape has been institutionalized for their execution. I have firsthand experience and better access to the particulars that I can use to prove my argument along with the break down information per Combatant Command and Military Department at the Defense Language Institute (DLI), and area of responsibility.