Accurate assessment and usable measures of effectiveness are essential to success in stability operations. Improving the ability of a host nation (HN) government to deliver services expected by its populace is necessary to enhance the stability of a society, maintain the legitimacy of its HN government, and to allow the HN government to "out administer" local insurgency groups. Correctly identifying what the local population expects from its HN government is fundamental to developing plans and operations that will build HN government capacity, social stability, and undermine threats to the HN government and civilian populace like social instability or violent insurgency. The daunting tasks of identifying and crafting responses to the causes and consequences of weak or failed states require organized and methodical programs with accurate, measureable and verifiable results.
DesignationCALL 10-41
EditionJan 2010
StatusActive
Pages82
FunctionSmall Unit Tactics
CollectionLessons Learned