Research Catalog

Title

Assessing locally focused stability operations / Jan Osburg [and 4 others].

Author

Osburg, Jan,

Publication

• Santa Monica, Calif : Rand Corporation, [2014]
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

• Arroyo Center
• Arroyo Center, issuing body.
• Arroyo Center. Force Development and Technology Program, researcher.
• Arroyo Center. Force Development and Technology Program.
• Madden, Dan,
• Paul, Christopher, 1971-
• Payne, Leslie Adrienne,
• Rand Corporation, issuing body.
• Rand Corporation.
• Saum-Manning, Lisa,
• United States. Army sponsoring body.
• United States. Army.

Description

xxii, 97 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"This report describes how the Army and other services can better measure and assess the progress and outcomes of locally focused stability operations (LFSO), which are defined as the missions, tasks, and activities that build security, governance, and development by, with, and through the directly affected community, in order to increase stability at the local level. A number of issues related to assessing LFSO are identified, along with foundational challenges that include an inherently complex operational environment, limited doctrinal guidance, competing visions of stability, untested assumptions, and redundant or excessive reporting requirements. The report offers solutions to these and other challenges, and provides concrete recommendations and implementation-related guidance for designing and conducting assessments of LFSO. The report concludes with an assessment plan for a notional African LFSO scenario that illustrates the practical application of those insights."--"Abstract" on web page.

Subject

• Armed Forces > Evaluation
• Armed Forces > Stability operations
• Asymmetric warfare
• Civil-military relations
• Integrated operations (Military science)
• Integrated operations (Military science) > Evaluation

Note

• "RAND Arroyo Center."
• "RR-387-A."--Cover page 4.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction and Study Methods -- Review of Assessment Approaches in Stability Operations -- Results: Insights and Recommendations -- Applying the Assessment Recommendations in a Practical Scenario -- Conclusions.

ISBN

• 0833085646
• 9780833085641

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library