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IAE 12-02W Preventing Conflict: Interagency Village Stability Operations Model

InterAgency Essay 12-02W, June 2012 by Matthew Denny This essay explores village stability operations (VSO) in Afghanistan as an "innovative, low-cost, and small footprint" method of achieving U.S. security objectives. New strategic guidance from the Department of Defense (DoD) calls for such measures... Read More

IAP 9W (May 2012) Rethinking the Interagency Role in Preventing Conflict in Dealing with Failing or Failed States

by Rumu Sarkar Contingency operations are currently taking place in dangerous, unpredictable, and highly volatile environments where local government institutions have weakened or collapsed. In view of these conflict situations, it is recognized that the initial task of the military... Read More

Conflict Prevention and Resolution Forum

Conflict Prevention and Resolution Forum. Toward a New Security Framework: Civil-Military Relations and Interagency Coordination. Seminar, Washington, DC, 14 April 2009. http://www.sfcg.org/Documents/CPRF/CPRF-Transcript-090414.pdf (accessed 20 July 2011). This is transcript of a forum that focused on nonmilitary power in the area... Read More

State Department establishes new Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations

On Monday, November 21, the U.S. Department of State established a new Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) to focus on conflict prevention, crisis response, and stabilization activities. CSO will seek to: Get ahead of change.  While the scale and... Read More

IAE 10-02 WE are the Interagency: Exercising a Comprehensive Approach to Crisis Action and Conflict Termination and Stabilization

InterAgency Essay 10-02, December 2010 by Major Edward Lee Bryan, U.S. Army & Lieutenant Colonel David Pendall, U.S. Army <download a pdf version of this essay> Foreword For years, the federal government has grappled with the question of how best... Read More

Trying to understand the Middle East topic of latest ARNSF

The CGSC Foundation's Simons Center hosted an Arter-Rowland National Security Forum luncheon event on Feb. 15, 2024, at the Carriage Club in Kansas City. The event featured a presentation entitled "Crisis in the Middle East: Understanding America's Hotel California. Simons... Read More

Distinguished Speaker Series event features update on war in Ukraine

The CGSC Foundation and its Simons Center hosted the second lecture of the 2023 Distinguished Speaker Series at the Riverfront Community Center in downtown Leavenworth, Kansas on Oct. 3, 2023. In this installment of the series retired Col. Matt Dimmick,... Read More

Distinguished Speaker Series – Oct. 3

You are invited to a Distinguished Speaker Series dinner event on Oct. 3, 2023, at the Riverfront Community Center in downtown Leavenworth, Kansas (123 S. Esplanade St.). A reception begins at 5:30 p.m., the buffet dinner starts at 6 p.m.... Read More

U.S. Civil-Military Relations Topic of ‘The General and the Ambassador’

In episode 79 of the podcast “The General and the Ambassador: A Conversation,” host Ambassador (Ret.) Deborah McCarthy is joined by Admiral James Foggo and Ambassador Philip Kosnett. McCarthy’s guests discuss their collaboration to launch the book Boots and Suits,... Read More

Post-Afghanistan Musings

Post-Afghanistan Musings By Lt. Gen. Robert L. Caslen, Jr. Editor Note:  This piece was originally published on Lt. Gen. Caslen's personal blog on September 3, 2021. There are many questioning our Nation’s withdrawal plans from Afghanistan, and we have to... Read More


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