text: Stability Operations Considerations in Counterinsurgency
  to help prioritize programs and projects. Essential tasks may include an initial response in which military
  forces—
  • Assess overall condition of local energy infrastructure.
  • Determine and prioritize essential infrastructure programs and projects.
  • Assess condition of existing power generation and distribution facilities.
  • Assess condition of existing natural resources conversion and distribution facilities.
  • Assess condition of existing facilities needed to effectively execute essential tasks
  in other sectors.
  • Assess conditions of existing municipal facilities that provide essential services.
  • Conduct expedient repairs or build new facilities to support the local populace.
  Use Money as a Weapon System
  7-89. Recent experiences have shown the effectiveness of using money to win popular support
  and further the interests and goals of units conducting counterinsurgency operations. Money should be
  used carefully. In most cases, higher authority will tightly control funds through strict accountability
  measures that ensure the money is used properly. When used effectively, and with an end state in mind,
  money can be an effective means to mobilize public support for the counterinsurgent’s cause and further
  alienate the insurgents from the population. A counterinsurgency force can use money to—
  • Fund civic cleanup and other sanitation projects, and the equipment to complete those projects.
  • Fund small scale infrastructure improvements.
  • Fund agricultural projects to improve farming practices and livestock health, or help implement
  cooperative farming programs.
  • Repair civic and cultural sites and facilities.
  • Repair institutions and infrastructure critical to governance and rule of law such as prisons,
  courthouses, and police stations.
  • Purchase education supplies or repair infrastructure critical for educating the local populace.
  • Pay rewards to citizens who provide information on enemy activities and locations
  • Support the creation, training, and operation of Host Nation security forces.
  • Fund events and activities that build relationships with Host Nation officials and citizens.
  • Repair damage resulting from combined and coalition operations.
  • Provide condolence payments to civilians for casualties from combined and coalition
  operations.
  TECHNIQUES
  7-90. Two techniques include the USAID principles of reconstruction and development, which can be
  used by tactical units for project selection and small-scale building projects. (See FM 3-07 for additional
  considerations.)
  Principles of Project Selection
  7-91. The following principals apply to project selection and the corresponding use of resources,
  especially financial resources, in support of counterinsurgency operations:
  Host Nation Ownership
  7-92. This principle holds that units must ensure that there is counterinsurgent and Host Nation
  ownership of any project. The local population and the government officials who serve them should view
  any project as their own and not one that has been imposed by outside agencies. A project that has been
  locally conceived, funded, and constructed legitimizes the government and contributes to stability.