O170 Stability Operations Flashcards
Tasks to Stability Operations
Establish civil security Establish civil control Restore essential services Support to governance Support economic and infrastructure development Conduct security cooperation
Purposes to Stability Ops
- Provide a secure environment
- Secure land areas
- Meet the critical needs of the populace
- Gain support for host-nation government
- Shape the environment for interagency and host-nation success
Stability Ops
Ultimately aims to create a condition so the local populace regards the situation as legitimate, acceptable, and predictable
Sources of Instability
- decrease support for the government
- increase support for antigovernmental element
- undermining of the normal functioning of society
Stability tasks focus on
Identifying and Targeting the root causes of instability and by building the capacity of local institutions
Who coordinates the US efforts in stabilization
Department of State
Stability Sectors (examples)
- Security
- Justice and Reconciliation
- Humanitarian assistance and social well-being
- Governance and participation
- Economic stabilization and infrastructure
Stability Sectors defined
help to focus and unify reconstruction and stabilization efforts within specific functional areas of society
similar to purpose and application to lines of effort
Six Primary Stability Tasks
- Establish civil security
- Support civil control
- Restore essential services
- Support to governance
- Support to economic and infrastructure development
- Conduct security cooperation
Stability Mechanims
Decisive points Lines of operations/effort Operational reach Tempo Simultaneity and depth Phasing and Transitions Culmination Risk
Factors to Stability Mechanisms
Compel
Support
Control
Influence
Measures of Performance
An indicator used to measure a friendly action that is tied to measuring task accomplishment
Measures of Effectiveness
An indicator used to measure a current system state, with change indicated by comparing multiple observations over time
