Intervention, Stabilization, and Transformation Operations: The Role of Landpower in the New Strategic Environment

Abstract

Presents the rationale for developing a new strategy that permits U.S. forces to go beyond initial intervention in a particular conflict to the equally critical stabilization and transformation phases. Suggestion that it is in the realm of stabilization and transformation operations that the government needs a new and innovative concepts; Postulation that the initial building blocks already exist within the U.S. military for support of this new grand strategy; Need to rapidly augment the capabilities and expand them throughout the agencies of government; Conclusion that in today's world it is no longer sufficient to simply defeat foes militarily, it has become necessary to transform them into nonbelligerents, allies and friends.