Bridging the Gap Between Instability and Order: Establishing a Constabulary Capability in the Department of Defense for 21st Century Stability and Reconstruction Operations

摘要

Like it or not, the Department of Defense (DOD) must embrace a constabulary capability to conduct SRO duties that are traditionally outside its desires or expertise to execute. For in the short term, the military is the only organization in a position to rapidly mobilize and deploy to execute SRO functions in the first weeks and months of an operation. It is time for the DOD to go 'Back to the Future' and develop a constabulary capability for 21st century SRO. Future success in winning the peace relies on the establishment of a SRO Center of Excellence to incorporate the constabulary capabilities of the past with the integrated Joint and interagency needs of the future, in order to produce a unified civil/military solution to SRO. If America is to win the peace during future SRO, the DOD and interagency partners must break away from traditional stovepipes and begin the debate on the future organization and structure to integrate, synchronize all element of national power during future SRO.