By Nora Bensahel
U.S. studies in Iraq and Afghanistan have established that bettering U.S. skill for stabilization and reconstruction operations is important to nationwide safety. The authors suggest development civilian instead of army capability, realigning and reforming latest organisations, and investment promising courses. additionally they recommend advancements to deployable police means, crisis-management strategies, and counsel and investment.
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The process of negotiating NSPD-44 underlined the challenges inherent in S/CRS’s role. The office had to build interagency buy-in for its leadership of future efforts. Many senior DoD officials, including those at the very highest levels, saw the new organization in a positive light, hoping that it would coordinate and build civilian capacity and take some unwanted load from DoD. Many key actors in the State Department and USAID, however, were more suspicious, believing that S/CRS was seeking to take over functions that were traditionally their own.
Military personnel are quite simply not equipped to deliver this training, although they have worked hard to set up effective programs when so tasked (as in Iraq and Afghanistan). As discussed above, although MPs are better suited than most mili- 28 Improving Capacity for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations tary personnel for this mission, training civilian police in a foreign country is a long way from their core mission and tasks, and they are therefore far from an ideal solution. Efforts to utilize reservists and members of the National Guard who are or have been police officers may be more effective.
189–209. 26 Improving Capacity for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations Policing It is very unlikely that local civilian police will be capable of restoring law and order. The stabilization operation will therefore need to (1) help achieve initial stability, (2) maintain stability once stability is attained, and (3) assist in the development of local police. These tasks are among the most important missions in the entire operation. Ideally, a deployable civilian police force with a training capability will be available to take on these tasks as part of the stabilization operation.