The Stability, Peace & Counterinsurgency SMARTbook

In the complex, dynamic strategic environment of the 21st century, significant challenges to sustainable peace and security persist across the spectrum of conflict. The drivers of conflict emerge as numerous symptoms of crises worldwide. Achieving victory will assume new dimensions as we strengthen our ability to generate “soft” power to address root causes of conflict among the disenfranchised populations.

At the heart of this effort is a comprehensive approach to stability operations that integrates the tools of statecraft with our military forces, international partners, humanitarian organizations, and the private sector. Stability operations leverage the coercive and constructive capabilities of the military force to establish a safe and secure environment; facilitate reconciliation among local or regional adversaries; establish political, legal, social, and economic institutions; and facilitate the transition of responsibility to a legitimate civil authority.

Peace Operations are crisis response and limited contingency operations conducted by a combination of military forces and nonmilitary organizations to contain conflict, redress the peace, and shape the environment to support reconciliation and rebuilding and to facilitate the transition to legitimate governance.

A counterinsurgency campaign is a mix of offensive, defensive, and stability operations conducted along multiple lines of operations. It requires military forces to employ a mix of familiar combat tasks and skills more often associated with nonmilitary agencies and to be nation builders as well as warriors.

Civil-military operations are a primary military instrument to synchronize military and nonmilitary instruments of national power, particularly in support of stability, counterinsurgency and other operations dealing with asymmetric and irregular threats.

The Stability, Peace & Counterinsurgency SMARTbook is multi-service, single-source reference for stability, peace and counterinsurgency operations designed for all levels of Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines & Civilians! Includes material from FM 3-07 Stability Operations, JP & FM 3-07.3 Peace Operations, JP & FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency Operations, JP 3-57 Civil-Military Operations, JP 3-29 Foreign Humanitarian Operations, FM 3-07.1 Security Force Assistance, JP 3-16 Multinational Operations, JP 3-08 Interagency, IGO and NGO Coordination, and many more.

Publisher's Note: Before purchasing The Stability, Peace & Counterinsurgency SMARTbook (Jan 2010), readers should also consider the updated, re-titled and re-focused second edition, "TAA2: The Military Engagement, Security Cooperation & Stability SMARTbook, 2nd Ed." (Aug 2016). The 2010 edition of "The Stability, Peace & Counterinsurgency SMARTbook" is still available because we continue to receive special requests for it because of its unique and specific focus on counterinsurgency and stability operations at the height of OIF/OEF -- including the Dec 2006 edition of FM 3-24 (Counterinsurgency Operations) and the Sept 2008 edition of FM 3-07 (Stability Operations).

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