Preventing Shocking Awe: The Challenge After Victory.

摘要

The Army Field Manual on leadership defines the attributes of a strategic leader in clear terms. Stability and reconstruction operations require many of those attributes. While it is very convenient to leave the job of stability and reconstruction to the military, this role should be limited to the military (primarily Army) core competencies, namely providing a secure environment for stability and reconstruction operations. When wielding all elements of national power, it is not efficient to exclude Government and non- government organizations that are better suited for these operations. The military plays a significant role in post-conflict operations, and will continue to do so in the future. Because of this, the roles and missions of the military and government organizations must be identified to minimize cost and maximize efficiency in stability and reconstruction operations. Even if the proper participants are identified, resourced, and trained, the ability to define stability and measure progress toward stability is lacking. This paper touches on strategic roles of governmental agencies, measures of effectiveness and merit for stability operations, and introduces a tool to track stability within a region.