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RECOMMENDATIONS
Lessons from real world operations suggest the controllable factors for achieving success is
the level of effort of the US and its coalition partners as measured in terms of manpower,
time, and money invested. The following recommendations aim to set the initial conditions
for instituting change and improving capabilities:
• Revise U.S. policy and strategy to emphasize, “Winning the Peace as Well as
the War.”
• Expand the focus of the U.S. military force transformation initiative and
investment strategies to include improving the ability to organize, train and
equip U.S. forces to conduct stabilization and reconstruction operations more
effectively.
• Initiate improvements in the U.S. interagency process and the enforcement of
collaboration and coordination of civil-military organization and agency
activities to ensure concurrency of planning and collaboration with
multinational partners.
• Consider multilateral participation and use of UN for legitimization and
burden sharing.
• Establish a civil-military collaborative information environment to facilitate
collaboration, coordination and information sharing among the coalition
military multinational civilian support elements, i.e., IOs and NGOs.
• Improve Post-Conflict Intelligence support operations
> Understanding the dynamics of social networks and society and
culture behaviors to be influenced.
> Exploit all sources of HUMINT including Civil Affairs, PSYOP and
other passive sources.
• Improve the civil-military training programs to included humanitarian
assistance, stability and reconstruction operations, civil-military operations,
media relations, civil-military relationships, and improved understanding of
the roles, relationships and capabilities of the various international military
and civilian participants.
• Establish measures of performance and effectiveness for:
> Post-Conflict Information Operations.
> Stability and reconstruction operations and nation building
• Improve the modeling and simulation capabilities.
> Training both the military and civilians to conduct stability and
reconstruction operations and nation building.