STABILITY OPERATIONS

2004Operational Studies has an active interest in peacekeeping and stability operations with particular focus on the issues related to security and law enforcement in a conflict or post-conflict environment.

Topics currently being tracked by OS include:

  1. The Role of the Military in Phase 4 Operations
  2. Lessons Learned from the Fall of Iraq – 2003
  3. The Challenges ofStability & Reconstruction (S&R) in an Unstable Insurgent Environment
  4. Security Sector Reform (SSR) & The Rule of Law
  5. Counter Insurgency in Iraq & Afghanistan
  6. Criminal Activity within an Insurgent Environment 
  7. The Role of Private Security Contractors (PSC) in Conflict & Post-conflict Environments
  8. Private Military Companies (PMC)
  9. Accountability for PMCs and PSCs
  10. Interoperability between PSCs and the US Military / Department of Defense



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pdf file  ARMED CONTRACTORS IN THE BATTLE SPACE

pdf file Convoy Security Operations in Iraq & Afghanistan by Mark V. Lonsdale