text: Defensive Considerations in Counterinsurgency
  Section III—OTHER LINES OF EFFORT
  In a counterinsurgency, defensive operations are conducted to prevent insurgents from attacking security
  forces, attacking the population, or disrupting actions along the seven COIN lines of effort. This section
  discusses special defensive operation considerations for the remaining five lines of effort.
  SUPPORT HOST NATION SECURITY FORCES
  6-119. The success or failure of a counterinsurgency falls heavily on the competence and capability
  of Host Nation security forces. When insurgent forces are stronger than the Host Nation security forces,
  insurgents focus on the destruction of weak Host Nation units to control terrain and consolidate gains
  through deliberate attacks on a Host Nation base, combined combat outpost, combined patrol base,
  or combined command post. In this situation, extra defensive efforts need to be applied to give time for the
  Host Nation security forces to develop. When Host Nation forces are stronger than insurgent forces,
  insurgents attempt to delegitimize Host Nation security force operations through attacks focused on
  lessening security. Then, defensive considerations need to be applied to enable Host Nation forces
  to increase the efficiency of their operations.
  SUPPORT TO GOVERNANCE
  6-120. This line of effort relates to the Host Nation governments' ability to gather and distribute resources
  while providing direction and control for society. By disrupting the Host Nation government’s ability
  to conduct these functions, an insurgency can delegitimize the government. An example is the local
  security of a key judge who has been instrumental in issuing verdicts against criminal activities
  of insurgents in order to prevent his assassination. Defensive efforts may need to be applied so that a
  government can conduct its basic functions which include—
  • Controlling military and police activities.
  • Establishing and enforcing the rule of law.
  • Public administration.
  • Justice (a judiciary system, prosecutor/defense representation, and corrections).
  • Property records and control.
  • Civil information.
  • Historical, cultural, and recreational services.
  • An electoral process.
  • Disaster preparedness and response.
  RESTORE ESSENTIAL SERVICES
  6-121. A common insurgent technique is to create a dissatisfied population by preventing the Host
  Nation from meeting the population’s basic needs. An easy way for an insurgent to do this is to disrupt the
  population from receiving sewage, water, electrical power, and medical services. Units should apply
  defensive considerations for any attempt by combined or Host Nation security forces to build or restore
  those services. For example, a poorly planned generator drop allows an insurgent to attack and destroy the
  generator. Now, instead of restoring an essential service and reinforcing the legitimacy of the Host Nation
  government as intended, the insurgent has demonstrated the weakness of the Host Nation government.
  Instead, US and Host Nation security forces need to secure, protect, and prevent insurgents from
  influencing projects that restore essential services.
  SUPPORT TO ECONOMIC AND INFRASTRUCTURE
  DEVELOPMENT
  6-122. A poor and unemployed population is naturally dissatisfied. The major pool of insurgent recruits
  are unemployed, young, adult males. The primary motivation for a young male to join an insurgency
  is often the wage that it provides. Sometimes insurgencies foster the conditions to keep an economy