Improving Capacity For Stabilization And Reconstruction Operations

Author : Nora Bensahel
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833046985
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improving Capacity for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations written by Nora Bensahel and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated that improving U.S. capacity for stabilization and reconstruction operations is critical to national security. To help craft a way ahead, the authors provide an overview of the requirements posed by stabilization and reconstruction operations and recommend ways to improve U.S. capacity to meet these needs.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781422398883
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stabilization and Reconstruction: Actions Needed to Improve Governmentwide Planning and Capabilities for Future Operations written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States Institute of Peace
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
ISBN 13 : 1601270461
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guiding Principles for Stabilization and Reconstruction written by United States Institute of Peace and published by US Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Chabrol's second film follows the fortunes of two cousins: Charles, a hard-working student who has arrived in Paris from his small hometown; and Paul, the dedicated hedonist who puts him up. Despite their differences in temperament, the two young men strike up a close friendship, until an attractive woman comes between them.

Author : Thomas S. Szayna
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833041908
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preparing the Army for Stability Operations written by Thomas S. Szayna and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004-2006, the U.S. government acted to revise the way that the planning and implementation of Stabilization, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction (SSTR) operations are conducted. The primary emphasis of the changes was on ensuring a common U.S. strategy rather than a collection of individual departmental and agency efforts and on mobilizing and involving all available U.S. government assets in the effort. The proximate reason for the policy shift stems from the exposing of gaps in the U.S. ability to administer Afghanistan and Iraq after the U.S.-led ousters of the Taliban and Ba'athist regimes. But the effort to create U.S. government capabilities to conduct SSTR operations in a more unified and coherent fashion rests on the deeper conviction that, as part of the U.S. strategy to deal with transnational terrorist groups, the United States must have the capabilities to increase the governance capacities of weak states, reduce the drivers of and catalysts to conflict, and assist in peacebuilding at all stages of pre- or post-conflict transformation. According to the Joint Operating Concept for Military Support to SSTR operations, these operations are civilian-led and conducted and coordinated with the involvement of all the available resources of the U.S. government (military and civilian), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and international partners. Although military assets are an essential component of many SSTR operations, specific military goals and objectives are only a portion of the larger SSTR operation.

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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428980407
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming for stabilization and reconstruction operations written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq were characterized by the rapid defeat of enemy military forces, by relatively small deployments of American forces, and by a very limited destruction of the critical civilian infrastructure. This success can be credited in large part to the ongoing transformation of the U.S. military evident in its effective use of information superiority, precision strike, and rapid maneuver on the battlefield. The Armed Forces were not nearly as well prepared to respond promptly to the lawlessness, destruction of the civilian infrastructure, and attacks on coalition forces that followed hard on the defeat of the Iraqi military. This has set back plans to restore essential services and to pass the reins to a representative Iraqi government. Moreover, the failure to establish security concurrently with the defeat of the Iraqi military may well have emboldened those who oppose the United States, United Kingdom, and even United Nations presence. It is precisely the success of the U.S. military in transforming its forces to execute rapid decisive operations that makes it imperative to transform how it prepares for and executes stabilization and reconstruction (S AND R) operations. The very rapid defeat of the enemy military means the United States must be ready to field the resources needed to secure stability and begin the reconstruction process promptly-ideally concurrently-with the end of major combat. This can only be done if planning for the stabilization and reconstruction operations is integrated into planning for the conflict from the beginning and if the right skills are in theater to begin operations concurrently with the surrender or collapse of the enemy military.

Author : Thomas S. Szayna
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833047159
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Integrating Civilian Agencies in Stability Operations written by Thomas S. Szayna and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a project entitled "Integrating the Interagency in Planning for Army Stability Operations," RAND Arroyo Center examined the question of how the Army can help make key civilian agencies more capable partners in the planning and execution of stability, security, transition, and reconstruction (SSTR) operations. The authors identify the primary and secondary civilian agencies that should be involved in strategic-level planning and implementation of SSTR operations. Then, relying on available information on Provincial Reconstruction Teams and using a variety of federal databases, the authors identify the skill sets needed for the envisioned Field Advance Civilian Teams and where these skills reside in the federal government. The authors then assess the capacity of the main civilian agencies to participate in SSTR operations and analyze the recurring structural problems that have plagued their attempts to do so. The authors suggest a series of options that are worth considering in order to improve the current situation. Even without much action at the national level, the Army can still improve the situation by improving Army Civil Affairs and by executing a well-thought-out strategy of liaison officers assigned to the civilian agencies most important for SSTR operations.

Author : Nora Bensahel
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0833047256
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Improving Capacity for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations written by Nora Bensahel and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2009-04-03 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan have demonstrated that improving U.S. capacity for stabilization and reconstruction operations is critical to national security. The authors recommend building civilian rather than military capacity, realigning and reforming existing agencies, and funding promising programs. They also suggest improvements to deployable police capacity, crisis-management processes, and guidance and funding.

Author : Alan F. Mangan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations Without a Grand Strategy written by Alan F. Mangan and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All efforts presently underway in the United States Government (USG) to plan, organize, and resource for future stabilization and reconstruction operations are handicapped by the absence of a grand strategy. The Department of State and the Department of Defense, in coordination with several other departments and agencies of the USG, several more intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations and allies and friends, are ambitiously attempting to build new capacities and institutionalize new processes that will better enable the USG and its like-minded partners to conduct political interventions into fragile, failing, failed, and post-conflict states in order to rebuild those states' institutions of civil governance. All of these efforts are handicapped by the absence of a grand strategy that links them with - and links together - the array of adjacent USG plans to, among other things, align diplomacy and development assistance, secure and defend the U.S. homeland, combat terrorism, cooperate with theater security partners, counter the proliferation of weapons mass destruction, and conduct major combat operations to win decisively and achieve enduring results. Not only should the USG plans be linked, but also the participation with the USG in these and similar operations of allies & partners and intergovernmental & nongovernmental organizations needs to be addressed with sufficient specificity to guide investment in U.S. capacity as a measurable subset of global capacity. Absent grand strategy, which presumably accomplishes the above and more, planning and resourcing for stabilization and reconstruction operations amounts to pre-planning responses to anticipated crises on a case-by-case basis.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Chait
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Army Science and Technology Analysis for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations written by Richard Chait and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the area of stabilization and reconstruction (S & R) operations, this study examines capability gaps and science and technology (S & T) needs and concludes that some areas require renewed emphasis. The Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology has been seeking to strengthen the technology base and research planning of Army S & T programs as they relate to S & R operations. By identifying capability gaps and, where appropriate, applying technological approaches to addressing those gaps, the Army should be better positioned to meet its increasingly S & R-focused mission requirements. To support the Army in this effort, the Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) at National Defense University (NDU) undertook a study to assess the technological capability gaps in the U.S. Army's ability to conduct S & R operations. The purpose of this study was threefold: (1) through field surveys, interviews, and review of related studies, to identify the technological shortfalls most consistently cited in land force execution of phase IV operations; (2) with respect to these operations, to identify capability gaps and needs and assess them with specific focus on the issue of technology shortfalls; and (3) with the gap analysis in hand, to highlight technology opportunities for consideration by Army S & T leadership. This study is organized along 10 major categories of military capabilities: battle command, armored vehicles in urban environments, situational awareness (SA), intelligence, force protection, unmanned systems, nonlethal capabilities, information operations (IO), training and use of modeling and simulation, and logistics. Within each category, existing and forthcoming Army S & T programs are mapped against stated technology shortfalls and capability gaps. While the issues of technology shortfalls in military capabilities as a whole are important, the overriding orientation of this analysis is focused on S & R operations.