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One of the most complex challenges facing the U.S. military today
is the problem of imposing stability over the chaos that follows
major combat operations. Despite the U.S. military's predilection
to distill warfare into the linear, Newtonian paradigm, recent
experience in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) suggests that the cause
and effect correlation between high-velocity major combat
operations and achieving a complex political endstate such as
regime change is becoming less certain in the contemporary
strategic environment. The transition to stability operations in a
non-linear, dynamic environment is proving more difficult, and
perhaps more decisive, than the major combat phase of a campaign.
At some point in every war, the focus must shift from rupturing the
existing system to stabilizing and legitimizing a new one; the
center of gravity from the enemy's military forces to ending the
chaos and violence that follow major combat operations. The aim of
this study is to examine the difficulty in planning and executing
these transitions from a historical perspective.
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