This book examines how the United States's extensive nation-building and stability operations will continue to evolve in the 21st century in the face of ever-growing budgetary concerns and constraints. Stability, Security, Reconstruction, and Transition Operations: A Guide to the Issues puts the people, places, and events crucial to nation-building and security operations through U.S. experiences under the microscope. This book focuses on the period after the Cold War, when U.S. operations proliferated, but also outlines the development of U.S. strategic decisions on nation-building and stability operations in a chronological fashion, providing documentation of these actions throughout American history. Original documents are provided and referenced to clarify concepts. With the increased attention on recent events in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Libya, the United States's actions and policies of nation-building are now a key public policy discussion topic, and an understanding of these topics is critical for students, scholars, and general readers alike.

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Preface Abbreviations 1 Definitions of Stability, Security, Reconstruction, and Transition Operations: Past and Present 2 Operations in the Past: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Interpretations of Security, Stability, Reconstruction, and Transition Operations CRS Report on Use of U.S. Forces Abroad, 1798–1993 Date: October 7, 1993 Jefferson's Secret Message Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition Date: January 18, 1803 The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine Date: December 5, 1905 Commencement Speech Introducing the Marshall Plan Date: June 5, 1947 Address at a White House Reception for Members of Congress and for the Diplomatic Corps of the Latin American Republics Date: March 13, 1961 Executive Order 10973 Date: November 3, 1961 3 The New World Order An Agenda for Peace, Preventative Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peace-keeping Date: June 17, 1992 Article by Colin Powell, "Why Generals Get Nervous" Date: October 8, 1992 National Security Directive 74 Date: November 24, 1992 Address to the Nation on the Situation in Somalia Date: December 4, 1992 4 The Clinton Administration and Stability Operations, 1993–2001 Presidential Review Document 13: Multilateral Peacekeeping Operations (declassified) Date: February 15, 1993 Remarks on Welcoming Military Personnel Returning from Somalia Date: May 5, 1993 President Clinton Addresses Nation on Somalia Date: October 7, 1993 Presidential Decision Directive 25 (PDD 25) Date: May 7, 1994 Address to the Nation on Implementation of the Peace Agreement for Bosnia-Herzegovina Date: November 27, 1995 Presidential Decision Directive 56 (PDD 56): Managing Complex Contingency Operations, Signed by William Jefferson Clinton Date: May 1997 Remarks to Genocide Survivors in Kigali, Rwanda Date: March 25, 1998 Remarks Announcing Airstrikes Against Serbian Targets in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) Date: March 24, 1999 Essay "A Just and Necessary War" by Bill Clinton Date: May 23, 1999 Address to the People of Colombia Date: August 24, 2000 5 Pre and Post 9/11: The Bush Administration Excerpts from October 3, 2000 Presidential Debate Date: October 3, 2000 Address Before a Joint Session of Congress on the United States Response to the Terrorist Attacks of September 11 Date: September 20, 2001 Following a Cabinet Meeting and an Exchange with Reporters Date: November 19, 2001 President Bush Addresses Virginia Military Academy Date: April 17, 2002 President Bush's Remarks to the United Nations Date: September 12, 2002 National Security Strategy 2002 Date: September 17, 2002 Dispute between Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki and Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Paul Wolfowitz over Post-invasion Troop Strength Date: February 25–27, 2003 Transcript of Remarks by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard B. Myers, USAF Date: April 11, 2003 A Unified Mission for Post-hostilities Iraq Date: April 2003 Address to the Nation on Iraq from USS Abraham Lincoln Date: May 1, 2003 President George W. Bush Second Inaugural Address Date: January 20, 2005 Department of Defense Directive 3000.05 Date: November 28, 2005 National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD-44 Date: December 7, 2005 The National Security Strategy March 2006 Date: March 16, 2006 Iraq Study Group Report Date: December 2006 Speech by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Funding for All Aspects of National Power Date: November 26, 2007 U.S. Assistance to Colombia Date: 2008 6 Now What? The Obama Administration Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates National Defense University's Distinguished Lecture Program Date: September 29, 2008 Secretary Gates' Follow on Questions and Answers at National Defense University Date: September 29, 2008 Army Field Manual 3—Stability Operations Date: October 2008 Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan Date: December 1, 2009 Department of Defense Instruction 3000.05: Stability Operations Date: September 16, 2009 United Nations Security Council Resolution #1973 (S/Res/1973): The Situation in Libya Date: March 17, 2011 Remarks by the President on the Way Ahead in Afghanistan Date: June 22, 2011 7 Conclusions Resources Index