PKSOI Journal

Peace & Stability Journal, Volume 5, Issue 4 Mister Robert C Browne Peace and Stability Journal by the US Army War College, Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute During the 2015 PSOTEW, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) facilitated a discussion aimed at developing a new course on civilian and military relations. The new course will focus on developing the knowledge and skills necessary for mid-level practitioners in the U.S. Government (USG), the Non-Governmental Organization/International Organization (NGO/IO), and multi-national communities to work more effectively with each other and with host country actors."

Peace & Stability Journal, Volume 5, Issue 3 Mister Robert C Browne Peace and Stability Journal by the US Army War College, Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute "South Asia is one of the poorest and most conflict prone nations in the world. Most South Asian countries have suffered from poor governance, lack of rule of law, corruption, lack of accountability, and human rights violations. In addition, the region of South Asia as a whole has yet to fully engage itself with issues pertaining to security sector reform. The broader notion of a full-fledged security agenda has not become an integral element of the ongoing security discourse, which remains essentially state-centric..."

Peace & Stability Journal, Volume 5, Issue 2 Mister Robert C Browne Peace and Stability Journal by the US Army War College, Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute "The following paper is an excerpt from a JPME paper on the topic of building defense training and education institutions in Africa. It relies heavily on the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) published on February 1, 2010 for research, guidance, and conclusions. The 2014 QDR was approved and signed by the Secretary of Defense on March 4, 2014. Therefore, the publication of the new 2014 QDR requires several additional comments in order to highlight the new defense guidance on Africa contained within the document."

Peace & Stability Journal, Volume 5, Issue 1 Mister Robert C Browne Peace and Stability Journal by the US Army War College, Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute "Some scholars warn that the 2010-12 Coalition “surge” in Afghanistan fell well short of the positive, albeit short-term results of the 2007-08 surge in Iraq. Since the Taliban threat remains high, its capabilities lethal, and its ideology resilient, the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF – including both the Army and Police) continue to face a major challenge in countering this insurgency while protecting the civilian population, particularly in the south and east of Afghanistan."

Peace & Stability Journal, Volume 4, Issue 4 Mister Robert C Browne Peace and Stability Journal by the US Army War College, Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute "While the discourse of American military efforts in the 21st-century has been dominated by the nature of counterinsurgency operations and urban warfare, perhaps its most salient output has been a renewed understanding of the importance of ‘whole of government’ approaches to future Army operations. Leveraging the collective capabilities of all elements of national power towards the accomplishment of over-arching political objectives is, therefore, critical to the rapid cessation of hostilities and the subsequent winning of the peace..."

Peace & Stability Journal, Volume 4, Issue 3 Mister Robert C Browne Peace and Stability Journal by the US Army War College, Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute "Our war on poppy production in Afghanistan has complicated and slowed the prosecution of the war against the perpetrators and facilitators of the September 11 attacks, distracted attention from Afghan governance deficiencies that are drivers of the conflict, impeded economic development and the rule of law, fostered corruption, and resulted in the deaths of U.S. and Coalition forces caught up in our crusade against drugs."

Peace & Stability Journal Special Edition Mister Robert C Browne Peace and Stability Journal by the US Army War College, Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute "With the United States the sole superpower, the mission of its Armed Forces would have to change to prepare for the next unpredictable challenge. One of those challenges, the humanitarian aid and peacekeeping effort in Somalia, came crashing into the world headfirst in 1992. This type of operation, called Military Operations Other than War (MOOTW), was greeted with mostly apprehension from most senior military officials. The military saw these types of missions as an exception rather than a common mission of the Army for the future. Others, especially General Gordon Sullivan, the Chief of Staff of the Army, saw them as a foreshadowing the missions that the United States would, more often than not, be engaged in."

Peace & Stability Journal, Volume 3, Issue 4 Mister Robert C Browne Peace and Stability Journal by the US Army War College, Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute "The US Army’s War College’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) personnel including Colonels Ed Lowe, Jim McFadden, and Bo Balcavage, along with retired Colonel Tony Lieto, traveled to West Africa in June 2013 to support one of US Army Africa’s (USARAF) premier training and security cooperation events, exercise Western Accord 2013 (WA13)..."

Peace & Stability Journal, Volume 3, Issue 3 Mister Robert C Browne Peace and Stability Journal by the US Army War College, Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute "The Stability Operations Training and Education Workshop reflects the efforts and dedication from the community of interest focused on ensuring the necessary emphasis and discussion occurs in regard to Peacekeeping, Stability Operations and emerging exercises. These efforts will ensure that, as a group, we will continue to place the resources, time and energy towards Peacekeeping and Stability Operations and the associated exercises to further the discussion, educate and promulgate the ideas, concepts and principles that allow us to work in synergy on furthering the knowledge and efforts in Peacekeeping, and Stability Operations. Many organizations participated. A list of these organizations and their principal points of contact are located at the end of this article."