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03/15/2014

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What are Stability Operations?
Definition
the tactical tasks that the Army conducts to improve conditions for noncombatants within areas of operations outside the United States
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What are the Basic Tasks of Stability Operations?
Definition
providing security, exercising control, and providing life-sustaining support such as food and water
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What are the more Complex Tasks of Stability Operations?
Definition
governance and economic development
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What is Joint Interdependence?
Definition
All the Services working together. The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.
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What does ADP 3-07 Cover?
Definition
Stability
Term
What are the 5 Stability Tasks?
Definition
Establish Civil Security; Establish Civil Control; Restore Essential Services; Support to Governance; Support to Economic and Infrastructure Development
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What are the 5 Joint Stability Functions?
Definition
Security; Rule of Law; Humanitarian Assistance; Governance and Participation; Economic Stabilization and Infrastructure
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What are the 5 End State Goals for Stability?
Definition
Safe and Secure Environment; Established Rule of Law; Social Well Being; Stable Governance; Sustainable Economy
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What are Factors that create Instability?
Definition
decreased support for the government; increased support for anti-government elements; undermining of the
normal functioning of society
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What is Stabilization?
Definition
a process in which personnel identify and mitigate underlying sources of instability to establish the conditions for long-term stability
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What are the 4 principles that lay the foundation for long-term stability?
Definition
Conflict Transformation; Unity of Effort; Legitimacy and host-nation ownership; Building Partner Capacity
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What is the Goal of Conflict transformation?
Definition
positive change
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What is Unity of Effort?
Definition
the coordination and cooperation toward common objectives, even if the participants are not necessarily part of the same command or organization—the product of successful unified action
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What does using whole-of-government approach enable?
Definition
achieving a balance of resources, capabilities, and activities that reinforces progress made by one of the instruments of national power while fostering success among the others
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What is Legitimacy?
Definition
a condition based upon the perception by specific audiences of the legality, morality, or rightness of a set of actions, and of the propriety of the authority of the individuals or organizations in taking them
Term
What are the 4 Factors for Successful Legitimacy?
Definition
mandate, manner, consent, and expectation
Term
What is a Fragile State?
Definition
a country that suffers from institutional weaknesses serious enough to threaten the stability of the central government
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What is a Safe and Secure Environment?
Definition
one in which the population has the freedom to pursue daily activities without fear of politically motivated, persistent, or large-scale violence
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What is Established Rule of Law?
Definition
the condition in which all individuals and institutions, public and private, and the state itself are accountable to the law
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What is Governance?
Definition
the state’s ability to serve the citizens through the rules, processes, and behavior by which interests are articulated, resources are managed, and power is exercised in a society
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What is Stable Governance?
Definition
a condition where the state has a sustainable political structure that permits the peaceful resolution of internal contests for power, government officials are held accountable, popular participation is guaranteed, and the population views the state as legitimate
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What is a Sustainable Economy?
Definition
one in which the population can pursue opportunities for livelihoods within a predictable system of economic governance bound by law
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What agency coordinates U.S. Government efforts in stability operations?
Definition
an overarching term encompassing various military missions, tasks, and activities conducted outside the United States in coordination with other instruments of national power to maintain or reestablish a safe and secure Environment, provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief (JP 3-0). Joint doctrine has established five joint stability functions
Term
What is the purpose of Establishing civil control?
Definition
it supports efforts to institute rule of law and stable, effective governance
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What is Stability Mechanisms?
Definition
the primary method through which friendly forces affect civilians in order to attain conditions that support establishing a lasting, stable peace
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What is Defeat Mechanism?
Definition
the method through which friendly forces accomplish their mission against enemy opposition
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What are the 4 Defeat Mechanisms?
Definition
destroy,dislocate, disintegrate, and isolate
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