text: Chapter 1
  Department of State
  1-63. The U.S. Department of State is responsible for implementing U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy
  efforts and plays a key role in integrating the capabilities of the U.S. The Department of State leads. It also
  oversees U.S. government support to counterinsurgency efforts. Several functional bureaus and offices
  have substantive roles in the development and execution of counterinsurgency strategy. These offices
  include the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs; the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations; the
  Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement; the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
  Labor; the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration; the Bureau of Intelligence and Research; and
  the Legal Advisor’s Office. The Department of State is responsible for diplomatic programs that assist a
  host nation with countering an insurgency. In many U.S. military operations—such as governance capacity
  building—the Department of State is the U.S. supported element and the military is the supporting element.
  1-64. One important capability that the State Department maintains is the civilian response corps. The
  civilian response corps maintains active members who are full time responders whose specific job is to
  train for, prepare, and staff overseas conflict prevention and stabilization operations. Active members of the
  civilian response corps can deploy on a 48-hour notice. The civilian response corps also maintains standby
  members. They are current full-time employees of the U.S. government or retirees of the U.S. Foreign
  Service. Members in the standby component must be available to deploy within 30 days, for up to 90 days,
  with the possibility to extend their deployment. The civilian response corps’ work focuses on six skill sets:
  Planning, operations, and management; security and rule of law; diplomacy and governance; essential
  services; and force protection.
  Country Team
  1-65. The country team is the senior, in-country, United States coordinating and supervising body, headed
  by the chief of the United States diplomatic mission, and composed of the senior member of each
  represented United States department or agency, as desired by the chief of the United States diplomatic
  mission (JP 3-07.4). In a foreign country, the chief of mission is the highest U.S. civil authority. The chief
  of mission leads the country team and is responsible for integrating U.S. efforts in support of the host
  nation. The defense attaché, usually a foreign area officer, will work directly with a county team. The
  defense attaché provides important links to the country team for the commander. As permanently
  established interagency organizations, country teams represent a priceless counterinsurgency resource.
  They often provide significant local knowledge and interaction with the host-nation government and
  population. (See figure 1-1 for an illustration of country team command relationships. See JP 3-07.4 for
  more information on the country teams.) Some of the government agencies normally represented on a
  country team include—
  * The United States Agency for International Development.
  * The Department of Justice.
  * The Department of Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
  * The Department of Homeland Security.
  * The Department of Agriculture.