Stability economics : the economic foundations of security in post-conflict environments / general editors Nathan W. Toronto and Dan G. Cox ; editor Carl W. Fischer.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Toronto, Nathan W., editor.

Cox, Daniel G., editor.

Fischer, Carl W. (Carl Wallace), editor.

Combat Studies Institute (U.S.). Press, issuing body.

U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. School of Advanced Military Studies

Series:

SAMS monograph series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army--Stability operations.

United States.

United States. Army.

National security--Economic aspects.

National security.

Internal security--Economic aspects.

Internal security.

Postwar reconstruction--Economic aspects.

Postwar reconstruction.

United States--Military policy--Economic aspects.

Armed Forces--Stability operations.

Military policy--Economic aspects.

Genre:

Textual

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 257 pages) : illustrations.

PDF; Adobe Reader required; 266 p.; 5.62 MB.

Other Title:

Subtitle from cover: Monographs from the School of Advanced Military Studies

Place of Publication:

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas : Combat Studies Institute Press, US Army Command Combined Arms Center, 2012

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the years after invading Iraq and Afghanistan, the US military realized that it had a problem: How does a military force set the economic conditions for security success? This problem was certainly not novel--the military had confronted it before in such diverse locations as Grenada, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. The scale and complexity of the problem, however, were unlike anything military planners had confronted beforehand. This was especially the case in Iraq, where some commentators expected oil production to drive reconstruction. When the fragile state of Iraq's infrastructure and a rapidly deteriorating security situation prevented this from happening, the problem became even more vexing: Should a military force focus on security first, or the economy? How can it do both? This is the challenge of Stability Economics. One answer to this problem in Iraq was the Commander's Emergency Response Program (CERP) and using money as a weapon system. The notion was that commanders could target funding at projects that would contribute to improvements in the economy and the security situation simultaneously. Beyond sparking an ongoing debate about CERP effectiveness, the evolution of money as a weapon system occurred under the shadow of a larger debate over whether the US military should prepare the future force for population-centric counterinsurgency operations or for large-unit combined arms maneuver operations. A force prepared for population-centric counterinsurgency would presumably also be better positioned to set the economic conditions for security success in a post-conflict environment. In very general terms, what one observer playfully called COINdinistas would favor the building of military doctrine and competencies to prepare the force to build economies in the future, the expectation being that facing such challenges are inevitable for the US military. Thus, the debate over how good the military should be at economic development influenced and was influenced by the debate over force structure and the character of future warfare.

Contents:

Introduction / Nathan W. Toronto

Entrepreneurial expeditionary economics and the United States military: right task, wrong tool? / Thomas J. Archer-Burton

Expeditionary economics and its implications on the United States Army / Marc E. Pelini

Expeditionary economics in turbulent times / James R. Connally

Comparing models for the restoration of essential services during counterinsurgency operations / Anthony P. Barbina

Shariʼa compliant finance: the overlooked element for developing an effective financial system in Afghanistan / Jan Willem Maas

Conclusion / Dan G. Cox.

Notes:

General Military History

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-257).

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Combined Arms Center website, viewed Jan. 8, 2018).

Other Format:

Print version: Stability economics

OCLC:

827200180

Access Restriction:

Approved for public release; Distribution is unlimited.

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