Consolidating Change: Transitional Security and Operational Art

摘要

The U.S. Government approach in post-conflict environments in recent decades has been too often marked by last minute improvisation, misaligned efforts and/or strategic inattention with mistakes made in one intervention repeated in later crises. Greater focus on certain core concepts such as security in a transitional environment would help to ensure both civilian and military leaders and planners share assumptions, definitions and desired end- states. The paper presents a preliminary effort to outline some of the factors involved in developing an operational useful definition of transitional security. Review of the literature and theoretical discussion is weighed in light of personal observations from Afghanistan.