text: Chapter 6
  6-256. Standards for transitioning governance responsibility depend on the credibility, capability, and
  capacity of the governing organization to maintain the favorable conditions established during armed conflict.
  Strategic leaders determine the broad conditions for transition at the outset of operations and refine them
  based on how the situation changes. Army forces play a key role in understanding the host-nation culture,
  understanding critical infrastructure, assisting strategic leaders in the development of realistic transition goals
  and timings, and determining the duration and scale of U.S. commitments required to maintain stability.
  THEATER ARMIES DURING TRANSITION TO POST-CONFLICT COMPETITION
  6-257. Theater armies play a key role in transition to post-conflict competition. Unlike JTFs that are created
  for limited durations, theater armies maintain a continuous, long-term focus on theater strategy and relevant
  national interests. A theater army anticipates and requests the additional forces, functional capabilities, and
  resources required to support transition. Theater requirements will change as combat operations reduce and
  focus on stability tasks increase. Theater armies refine logistic estimates, update security cooperation plans,
  request engineer units capable of infrastructure development, refocus civil affairs requirements, improve
  communications infrastructure, and address any other critical requirements.
  6-258. Enabling legitimate authorities requires coordination with unified action partners, as well as a
  favorable attitude among the population towards friendly forces supporting the effort. The theater army’s
  goal is to replace U.S. combat forces with host-nation or other provisional authorities.
  6-259. Security force assistance (SFA) is a key component of any plan to transition. SFA requires trained,
  educated professional officers and noncommissioned officers as trusted advisors to partner-nation security
  forces. A theater army supports JFCs in integrating conventional forces and special operations forces into
  SFA plans that support transition and sustainable political outcomes.
  6-260. The theater army engages other regional actors to assist in promoting the stability of the region and
  managing the transition. In most cases, successful transition requires the theater army to retrograde
  equipment, close the JOA, coordinate for the redeployment of Army forces, and manage a long-term security
  cooperation plan. Relationships with regional leaders help to facilitate these requirements and provide
  stability for local populations.
  CORPS DURING TRANSITION TO POST-CONFLICT COMPETITION
  6-261. Corps play a key role in transitioning from combat to stability-focused operations. As part of this,
  consolidate gains activities may require the Army corps to employ forces to perform these tasks:
  (cid:122) Establish area security throughout the entire corps AO. This includes offense and defense tasks to
  destroy or neutralize remaining threats and protect the civilian population and infrastructure.
  (cid:122) Conduct stability tasks necessary to create conditions that allow for the eventual transition to a
  legitimate authority.
  (cid:122) Conduct security force assistance to build the capability and capacity of foreign security forces.
  (cid:122) Dissuade enemies and adversaries from reinitiating hostile or disruptive operations and persuading
  them to abide by sanctions, laws, or international dictates.
  (cid:122) Coordinate and influence the assumption of responsibility by host-nation or other authorities.
  (cid:122) Synchronize psychological actions aligned with friendly unit activities (including deeds, words,
  and images) to favorably influence civilian attitudes toward friendly security forces and the
  eventual transition to legitimate authority.
  6-262. As large-scale combat operations conclude in a corps AO, the corps continues to adjust its
  operational framework to meet the increasing demand on stability tasks, while maintaining a posture that
  prevents enemy forces from reconstituting their forces and operations. Operations primarily focus on
  providing area security in high threat areas, followed by the performance of stability tasks in lower threat
  areas. During transition, corps will likely conduct simultaneous offense, defense, and stability operations.