The phrase "advisory efforts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to actions or initiatives aimed at providing guidance or recommendations in a particular context.
Example: "The committee's advisory efforts have significantly improved the decision-making process within the organization."
Alternatives: "consultative actions" or "guidance initiatives".
Fortunately, the advisory effort has been improved in the last couple of years.
"We are pleased Jim is joining our financial institutions team, where he will lead our advisory effort for banks," said Stephen Campbell, Global Head of the Financial Institutions Group advisory of Lazard.
In Vietnam, the advisory effort got off to a slow start and was too often neglected in favor of United States-only operations.
At a Fourth of July party at the United States Ambassador's residence in Saigon, he refused to shake hands with General Paul Harkins, the fatuously optimistic commander of the American advisory effort.
The general contended that in Vietnam the American forces' record of "achievements was remarkable: the mammoth logistical buildup, various tactical expedients and innovations, the advisory effort, civic action programs".
Equally critical to the advisory effort is continuity: After individuals are selected and trained, they must be sent to work with the same Afghan units again and again — long-term personal relationships are the real coin of the realm in Afghanistan.
Troop levels would be reduced to sixty thousand by January, 2009, with a third of those remaining involved in a greatly expanded advisory effort — U.S. soldiers would embed with Iraqi forces, help them plan and conduct operations, and act as intelligence sources, identifying capable, corrupt, and sectarian Iraqi leaders.
Officers and senior sergeants, culled from the limited number still available, would have to be assembled and trained months in advance of deployment; and skimming the cream of the Army and the Marine Corps for an advisory effort would reduce the efficacy of combat brigades.
Kennedy also, in the opinion of then Defense Secretary Robert Montgomery and others around him, was preparing to draw down US forces in Vietnam before they ever seriously ramped up, adopting as a covering measure the acceptance of rosy Pentagon reports on how swimmingly the U.S. advisory effort was going and how well the South Vietnamese forces were doing.
