text: Chapter 8
  FOSTERING SUSTAINABILITY
  8-111. In fostering sustainability, the goal is to institutionalize a long-term sustainable economic
  development program and to transition control of the economy completely to host-nation officials,
  entrepreneurs, and civil society. This phase also includes steps that build on and reinforce the successes of
  the initial response and transformation phases. Steps taken during this phase support sustainable economic
  growth based on a healthy society supported by healthy communities and neighborhoods. The primary
  economic development role for the BCT is to continue to advise and assist host-nation civilian economic
  officials.
  CONDUCT SECURITY COOPERATION
  8-112. Security cooperationis all Department of Defense interactions with foreign security establishments
  to build security relationships that promote specific United States security interests, develop allied and partner
  nation military and security capabilities for self-defense and multinational operations, and provide United
  States forces with peacetime and contingency access to allied and partner nations (JP 3-20). Security
  cooperation provides the means to build partner capacity and achieve strategic objectives. These objectives
  include—
  (cid:122) Building defensive and security relationships that promotes specific U.S. security interests.
  (cid:122) Developing capabilities for self-defense and multinational operations.
  (cid:122) Providing U.S. forces with peacetime and contingency access to host nations to increase situational
  understanding of an operational environment.
  8-113. Army forces support the objectives of the combatant commander’s campaign plan in accordance
  with appropriate policy, legal frameworks, and authorities. The plan supports those objectives through
  security cooperation, specifically those involving SFA (see FM 3-22) and foreign internal defense (see
  ATP3-05.2). Security force assistanceis the Department of Defense activities that support the development
  of the capacity and capabilityof foreign security forces and their supporting institutions (JP 3-20).Foreign
  internal defense is participation by civilian and military agencies of a government in any of the action
  programs taken by another government or other designated organization to free and protect its society from
  subversion, lawlessness, insurgency, terrorism, and other threats toits security (JP 3-22).
  8-114. SFA and foreign internal defense professionalize and develop security partner capacity to enable
  synchronized sustaining operations. Army security cooperation interactions enable other interorganizational
  efforts to build partnercapacity. Army forces—including special operations forces—advise, assist, train, and
  equip partner units to develop unit and individual proficiency in security operations. The institutional Army
  advises and trains partner Army activities to build institutional capacity for professional education, force
  generation, and force sustainment. (See FM 3-22 for additional information on support to security
  cooperation.)
  Notes. SFABs provide SFA to host-nation FSF. The SFAB provides organic forces to form the
  basisfor the SFAB mission to support FSF. Within the SFAB, the company team is the foundation
  for the SFAB’s mission and augmented with additional personnel and assets to accomplish the
  mission. (See ATP 3-96.1 for information on the SFAB.)
  On occasion, the BCT as a whole or selected unit(s) of the BCT may support SFA activities,
  including potentially supporting multiple FSF organizations in or external to the BCT’s area of
  operations. Additionally, these FSF organizations may each report through different host-nation
  government channels and even to different ministries. To synchronize efforts in this case, U.S.
  forces must achieve unity of effort. Similarly, each of the FSF organizational commanders should
  synchronize their efforts with the host-nation government representatives, as appropriate. (See
  ATP3-21.20 for an example task organization, used for discussion purposes, for an Infantry
  battalion supporting multiple SFA activities.)