Maritime Stability Operations

Marine Corps Interim Publication 3-33.02/Navy Warfare Publication 3-07/ Commandant Instruction M3120.11, Maritime Stability Operations, is the initial step in the development of Naval Service (Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard) doctrine for maritime stability operations. It reflects the latest thinking of naval forces concerning stability operations and is influenced by Joint Publication 3-07, Stability Operations, and Army Field Manual 3-07, Stability Operations.

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.