text: Security Cooperation in the Competition Continuum
  3-91. SC teams conducting OTEBA developmental activities can be formed and mission-tailored to build
  partner force capability and capacity and enable interoperability for the FSF to implement stability
  mechanisms. A stability mechanism is the primary method through which friendly forces affect civilians to
  attain conditions that support establishing a lasting, stable peace (ADP 3-0). As with defeat mechanisms,
  combinations of stability mechanisms produce complementary and reinforcing effects that accomplish the
  mission more effectively and efficiently than single mechanisms do alone. The four stability mechanisms
  which SFA units and teams can enable FSF to implement and to improve are—
  * Compel means to use, or threaten to use, lethal force to establish control and dominance, affect
  behavioral change, or enforce compliance with mandates, agreements, or civil authority.
  * Control involves imposing civil order.
  * Influence means to alter the opinions, attitudes, and ultimately the behavior of foreign, friendly,
  neutral, and threat audiences through messages, presence, and actions.
  * Support establishes, reinforces, or sets conditions necessary for the instruments of national power
  to function effectively.
  3-92. Helping partner nations build, rebuild, or maintain their national security institutions is a critical step
  in maintaining regional stability, and it is ultimately less expensive than requiring U.S. forces to do so. SC
  efforts can make it possible for the FSF to accomplish or augment the joint force and the Army in the
  minimum-essential stability operations tasks which are—
  * Establish civil security.
  * Provide immediate needs (access to food, water, shelter, and medical treatment).