Peace & Stability Journal, Volume 1, Issue 4

July 8, 2011

This Issue of the Peace & Stability Journal features articles on the subjects of human resource efforts by the Japanese in East Timor, economic capacity building, prison medicine and the Rule of Law, building intellectual capacity in partner defense forces, developing host nation law enforcement capacity for security transition, and capacity building in Korea. 

Finding the Balance: U.S. Military Operations

This monograph Finding the Balance: U.S. Military Operations examines the U.S. Military’s struggle to find the correct balance between conventional and counterinsurgency/stability approaches. The author uses history to remind us that at the end of wars, Armies often “throw the baby out with the bathwater” and revert to a default position for organization and doctrine instead of inculcating those lessons learned in the recent wars. History shows us that we do not maintain capabilities and capacity to conduct operations in complex environments.

A Continuation of Politics by Other Means: The “Politics” of a Peacekeeping Mission in Cambodia (1992-93)

This monograph A Continuation of Politics by Other Means: The “Politics” of a Peacekeeping Mission in Cambodia (1992-93) uses the UN Cambodian peacekeeping mission of 1992-93, considered a great success by many, to examine the complexities involved in UN peacekeeping missions and to illustrate the primacy of the political context in determining success.

SOLLIMS Sampler Volume 2 Issue 2- Economic Stabilization

Targeting Peace & Stability Ops Lessons & Best Practices. This lessons-learned compendium contains just a sample – thus the title of “sampler” – of the observations, insights, and lessons related to Economic Stabilization available in the SOLLIMS data repository. These observations are worth sharing with military commanders and their staffs, as well as civilian practitioners with a Stability Operations-related mission / function – those currently deployed into conflict environments, those planning to deploy, the institutional Army, policy makers and other international civilian and military leaders at the national and theater level.

Lessons Learned from U.S. Government Law Enforcement in International Operations

This paper Lessons Learned from U.S. Government Law Enforcement in International Operations has been produced as a part of the Law Enforcement Capabilities Project (LECP). The LECP is an initiative of the Emerging Capabilities Division (ECD) within the Rapid Reaction Technology Office (RRTO) of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD).