Monitoring, Early Warning, Planning
November 9, 2004
The Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization will:
- Identify vulnerable states through new early warning/monitoring system (classified and open-source) with updates every 6 months.
--Every 6 months, select a limited number of countries for intensive planning.
--Identify actions to avert crises and prepare for contingencies.
--Incorporate all key interagency actors ? civilian and military, and identify potential partners outside government.
--Extract generic trends; test plans with interagency exercises.
- Coordinate civilian stabilization and reconstruction participation in military planning and exercises.
--Deploy Humanitarian, Stabilization, and Reconstruction Team (HSRT) to Combatant Commands to participate in post-conflict planning where U.S. military forces will be heavily engaged.
--Develop mechanisms for coordinating military and civilian operational planning across the full spectrum of possible military involvement in stabilization and reconstruction (S&R) operations.
--Issue: clarify budget parameters and legal authorities for military/civilian cooperation on stabilization and reconstruction.
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