text: Chapter 3
  Critical links and nodes.
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  Branches and sequels.
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  * Developing and engaging civil networks to provide civil security and civil control.
  * Denying the enemy civil component resources through CNDE.
  * Creating multiple dilemmas for an enemy thereby reducing the ability of the enemy to allocate
  resources and forces to the fight.
  * Nominating restrictive-fire areas and no-fire areas to minimize damage to the civil infrastructure
  and culturally sensitive sites.
  * Tracking damage to infrastructure and other combat-related effects to the civil component.
  * Providing options to the commander to produce effects in the civil component of the OE.
  * Providing civil component analysis to planning processes to protect the populace, critical assets,
  infrastructure, and resources.
  * Integrating civil networks to secure critical civil assets, thereby freeing U.S. forces for defensive
  tasks.
  * Planning and conducting PRC options to increase the burden to adversaries and threats (by
  creating strategic and political dilemmas).
  * Advising on the presence of culturally, economically, and politically significant assets and
  resources within the AO.
  * Advising on counter mobility operations directed at economically significant roads, railways,
  bridges, and other infrastructure.
  * Advising the commander on civilian movements during the planning for emplacement of obstacles,
  such as minefields.
  * Developing courses of action that will lead to area security and civil control by integrating stability
  operations tasks.
  * Preventing or mitigating civilian interference with military operations and the impact of military
  operations on the civil populace.
  * Identifying and leveraging civil network capabilities, capacities, and resources to enhance the
  commander’s mission and reduce the use of military resources.
  * Identifying and addressing friction points between military operations and the civil population.
  STABILITY
  3-26. A stability operation is an operation conducted outside the United States in coordination with other
  instruments of national power to establish or maintain a secure environment and provide essential
  governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief (ADP 3-0).
  According to ADP 3-0, “Commanders are legally required to provide minimum-essential stability operations
  tasks when controlling populated areas of operations. These essential services provide minimal levels of
  security, food, water, shelter, and medical treatment.”
  3-27. CAO are inherently stabilizing in the context of U.S. interests and consolidation of gains.
  Stability operations—
  * Support governance by an HN, an interim government, or a military government.
  * Involve coercive and constructive actions.
  * Help to establish and maintain a safe and secure environment and facilitate reconciliation among
  local or regional adversaries.
  * Assist in building relationships among unified action partners.
  * Promote U.S. security interests.
  * Help establish and improve political, legal, social, and economic institutions while supporting
  transition to a legitimate host-nation government.
  * Cannot succeed if they only react to enemy initiatives.
  * Must maintain the initiative by pursuing objectives that resolve causes of instability.