text: Stability Operations Considerations in Counterinsurgency
  • Check the driver’s credentials and cargo manifests.
  • Inspect to the degree required for the cargo.
  • Complete the search.
  • Instruct driver and occupants to secure load and continue.
  SUPPORT TO GOVERNANCE
  7-44. This helps build toward effective, legitimate governance. Specifically, it focuses on restoring
  public administration and resuming public services, while fostering long-term efforts to establish a
  functional, effective system of political governance. In every case, for the counterinsurgent to develop a
  long-term solution, unit actions must strengthen the Host Nation government and reinforce its legitimacy
  with the people (Figure 7-4). The formation of an effective local government is critical to the success
  of any counterinsurgency operation because they provide the foundation for legitimate governance at the
  national level. Additionally, effective local governments promote social stability when people have a say
  in their own government. They also increase financial transparency, which helps fight corruption. At the
  local level, the formation of local neighborhood councils serves as an excellent starting point
  for supporting governance. Units may have to initiate these efforts without an external agency support.
  Neighborhood and district councils are effective because they empower the population on many levels.
  They help the populace devise local solutions to local problems and help citizens and community leaders
  build skills in community decision making. All involved parties learn to resolve conflicts peacefully
  and in a transparent fashion. Local councils also help leaders at the local level develop skills that can help
  them serve at higher levels of government.
  SUBORDINATE TASKS
  7-45. Typical tasks include—
  • Support transitional administrations.
  • Support development of local governance.
  • Support anticorruption initiatives.
  • Support elections.
  Figure 7-4. Legitimate governance.