Defined as operations other than war, stability operations can
include peacekeeping activities, population control, and
counternarcotics efforts, and for the entire history of the United
States military, they have been considered a dangerous distraction
if not an outright drain on combat resources. Yet in 2005, the U.S.
Department of Defense reversed its stance on these practices, a
dramatic shift in the mission of the armed forces and their role in
foreign and domestic affairs. With the elevation of stability
operations, the job of the American armed forces is no longer just
to win battles but to create a controlled, nonviolent space for
political negotiations and accord. Yet rather than produce
revolutionary outcomes, stability operations have resulted in a
large-scale mission creep with harmful practical and strategic
consequences.
Jennifer Morrison Taw examines the military's sudden embrace of
stability operations and its implications for American foreign
policy and war. Through a detailed examination of deployments in
Iraq and Afghanistan, changes in U.S. military doctrine,
adaptations in force preparation, and the political dynamics behind
this new stance, Taw connects the preference for stability
operations to the far-reaching, overly ambitious American
preoccupation with managing international stability. She also shows
how domestic politics have reduced civilian agencies' capabilities
while fostering an unhealthy overreliance on the military.
Introducing new concepts such as securitized instability and
institutional privileging, Taw builds a framework for understanding
and analyzing the expansion of the American armed forces'
responsibilities in an ever-changing security landscape.
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