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How can the Army help make key civilian agencies more capable partners in stability, security, transition, and reconstruction (SSTR) operations? The authors identify the civilian agencies that should be involved in such operations, then locate the necessary skill sets. They then assess the capacity of the civilian agencies to participate in SSTR operations and analyze the recurring structural problems that have plagued their attempts to do so.

Civil-military relations -- United States. --- Integrated operations (Military science). --- Interagency coordination -- United States. --- Postwar reconstruction -- Government policy -- United States. --- United States -- Armed Forces -- Civic action. --- United States -- Armed Forces -- Civil functions. --- United States -- Armed Forces -- Stability operations. --- Integrated operations (Military science) --- Interagency coordination --- Civil-military relations --- Postwar reconstruction --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Military Administration --- Government policy --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Civic action. --- Stability operations. --- Civil functions. --- Post-conflict reconstruction --- Reconstruction, Postwar --- Combined integrated operations (Military science) --- Multinational integrated operations (Military science) --- Stabilization operations --- Military art and science

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In this volume, the authors identify and evaluate key faultlines in Central Asia and the South Caucasus and how they affect the likelihood and possible evolution of armed conflict in these regions. The analysis examines the ways in which the emergence of conflict could draw the US into the strife.

United States. --- Foreign service --- Asia, Central --- Caucasus --- United States --- Asie centrale --- Caucase --- Etats-Unis --- Strategic aspects --- Military policy --- Aspect stratégique --- Politique militaire --- Caucasia --- Caucasus Mountains --- Caucasus Region --- Kavkaz --- Soviet Central Asia --- Tūrān --- Turkestan --- West Turkestan --- National security --- U.S. Army --- US Army --- Central Asia --- Asia --- Strategic aspects. --- Military policy.

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This report provides an analytical framework for thinking about the potential for militarized ethnic conflict in the central part of Europe and the Balkans. The report distinguishes between three types of ethnic tensions: (1) a mobilized ethnic group without outside backers, which can escalate to a low-intensity conflict within a specific country; (2) a mobilized ethnic group backed by a neighboring nation-state, which can escalate into an international dispute or border war; and (3) the breakup of federal states made up of ethno-territorial administrative units, which can escalate to armed struggle (a hybrid between a civil war and a war for independence that may escalate into a larger regional war). The report argues that the type of regional ethnic demands is shifting away from outright secession (breakup of states) and toward calls for autonomy. It concludes that U.S. policy should focus on controlling ethnic tensions by limiting their spread, preventing their escalation into militarized conflict, and containing any conflicts that occur. The report ends with some recommendations for the United States and the Army.

Europe, Eastern --- United States --- Ethnic relations. --- Foreign relations

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The Partnership for Peace (PfP) program can be seen as a lens for examining the larger security policy debates in Poland and Germany. This documented briefing traces the recent evolution of the security debate in each country, and notes how each has adapted PfP to suit its security policy needs. The research reveals that both Poland and Germany view PfP as the first step on a path to NATO membership for at least some of the partner countries, most of all Poland. Germany and Poland are making maximum use of the program to solidify their military cooperation, and both are hopeful that the United States takes a similar view toward PfP implementation. The main difference between the two countries relates to Russia: the Poles fear that Germany may bend its PfP policy of extensive cooperation with Poland to reach agreement on security issues with Russia. The briefing concludes with a discussion of the implications of the Polish and German interpretations of PfP for the United States and for the U.S. Army.

National security --- Germany --- Poland --- Military relations --- Defenses.