text: Chapter 7
  Establish Border Control, Border Security, and Freedom of Movement
  7-7. A central component of civil security is the ability of the HN to monitor and regulate its borders.
  Generally, border and coast guard forces secure national boundaries while customs officials regulate the
  flow of people, animals, and goods across state borders. These border controls are necessary to regulate
  immigration, control the movements of the local populace, collect excise taxes or duties, limit smuggling,
  and control the spread of disease vectors through quarantine. In COIN, the ability for the counterinsurgent
  to control the borders reduces the effectiveness of the external support for the insurgency. Essential tasks
  may include—
  • Establish border control and boundary security.
  • Establish and disseminate rules relevant to movement.
  • Dismantle roadblocks and establish checkpoints.
  • Ensure freedom of movement.
  Support Identification
  7-8. This task complements efforts to vet Host Nation personnel, encourage participation
  in representative government, resolve property disputes, and validate professional credentials. Although
  vital to other programs for rebuilding a functioning civil society, identification programs are equally
  important to civil security. After the collapse of an authoritarian or hostile regime, these programs ensure
  that potential adversaries do not inadvertently reintegrate into society. Thus, they are deprived of the ability
  to sow the seeds of a future insurgency. It is a key part of populace and resource control operations.
  Tactical units often do this by conducting a census with biometric assets. Essential tasks may include—
  • Secure documents relating to personal identification, property ownership, court records, voter
  registries, professional certificates, birth records, and driving licenses.
  • Establish identification program.
  • Ensure individuals have personal forms of identification.
  Protect Key Personnel and Facilities
  7-9. In COIN, military forces may extend protection and support to the HN population to ensure their
  continued contribution to the overall stability operation. In the interest of transparency, military forces
  specifically request and carefully negotiate this protection. Similarly, the long-term success of any
  counterinsurgency often relies on the ability of the security force to protect and maintain critical
  infrastructure until the HN government can resume that responsibility. Essential tasks may include
  identifying, securing, protecting, and coordinating disposition for stockpiles of munitions and CBRN
  materiel and precursors; facilities; and adversaries with technical expertise as well as the following:
  • Protect—
  (cid:131) Government-sponsored civilian reconstruction and stabilization personnel.
  (cid:131) Contractor and civilian reconstruction and stabilization personnel and resources.
  • Protect and secure—
  (cid:131) Places of religious worship and cultural sites.
  (cid:131) Critical infrastructure, natural resources, civil registries, and property ownership documents.
  (cid:131) Strategically important institutions (such as government buildings; medical and public health
  infrastructure; the central bank, national treasury, and integral commercial banks;
  museums; and religious sites).
  (cid:131) Military depots, equipment, ammunition dumps, and means of communications.
  • Build Host Nation capacity to protect—
  (cid:131) Civilian reconstruction and stabilization personnel.
  (cid:131) Infrastructure and public institutions.
  (cid:131) Military infrastructure.