Wednesday 7 December 2011

One Team’s Approach to Village Stability Operations

One Team’s Approach to Village Stability Operations
by Rory Hanlin

Journal Article | September 4, 2011 - 11:55pm, Updated: September 13, 2011 - 05:30am

"If you have seen one VSO, you have seen one VSO."

This paper is an effort to demonstrate my team’s approach to VSO using the principles and TTPs that numerous articles have recently highlighted in the July-September issue of Special Warfare Magazine.

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...progress along the VSO shape-hold-build-transition/expansion model is inhibited by 3 key factors: a defunct system of governance, a divided population, and an under-developed economy based in subsistence farming. These factors collude to form a survivalist culture with a zero-sum worldview.

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Fascinating article.

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