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Stability – Stabilization – Stability Tasks
Stability can be described as the overarching characterization of the effects created by activities of the
United States Government (USG) outside the US using one or more of the instruments of national power to
minimize, if not eliminate, economic and political instability and other drivers of violent conflict across one or
more of the five USG stability sectors (i.e., security, justice and reconciliation, humanitarian assistance and
social well-being, governance and participation, and economic stabilization and infrastructure).
Offensive tasks
Defensive tasks
Stability tasks
Using The Stability Principle of Unity of Effort
Stabilization is the process by
which military and nonmilitary
actors collectively apply various
instruments of national power to
address drivers of conflict, foster
host-nation resiliencies, and
create conditions that enable
sustainable peace and security.
To produce …
Produces
Stability tasks are conducted
as part of operations outside
the United States in
coordination with other
instruments of national power
to maintain or reestablish a
safe and secure environment,
provide essential governmental
services, emergency
infrastructure reconstruction,
and humanitarian relief.
Unified Action
The Army conducts the primary stability tasks integrated into the joint stability
functions and the USG stability sectors to achieve the endstate conditions …