text: Stability
  LEGITIMACY
  8-232. Legitimacy of the forces providing SFA may be tenuous during some phases of a complex operation,
  but it is an essential consideration for achieving long-term objectives. SFA should aim to ensure that all FSF
  operate within the bounds of domestic and international laws, respect human rights, and that they support
  wide-ranging efforts to enforce and promote the rule of law, thus supporting legitimacy and transparency.
  Legitimacy fosters transparency and confidence among host-nation government, FSF, host-nation
  population, and U.S. Government agencies. Another aspect of legitimacy is supporting host-nation ownership
  in the SFA effort, because it facilitates a sense of sustainability for building a capacity or security reform
  through acceptance by the host-nation population.
  8-233. Throughout planning, the BCT commander and staff consider how each SFA activity affect popular
  perceptions and focus on the activities that enable the legitimacy of the host-nation government and FSF, not
  just make them technically competent. Having a just cause and establishing and sustaining trust affect the
  relationship with the indigenous population. Commander and staff must ensure an appropriate information
  management plan is developed for SFA in coordination with interagency partners and the division or other
  higher headquarters. SFA advisors/trainers must work with the FSF to give a positive context and narrative
  to the FSF professionalization efforts and capacity to secure the population. Coordination of the information
  themes and messages among the United States, FSF, and the host-nation government, and the presentation
  or availability of information to the indigenous population can limit or mitigate the propaganda efforts of
  insurgents or hostile forces. This may serve to mitigate the potential for destabilizing influences of hostile
  forces or criminal elements to propagandize SFA efforts and damage the host-nation government’s credibility
  and legitimacy.
  SECURITY FORCEFUNCTIONS
  8-234. Security forces perform three generic functions: executive, generating, and operating. The executive
  function includes strategic and operational direction that provides oversight, policy, and resources for the
  FSF generating and operating functions. The generating function develops and sustains the capabilities of the
  operating forces. In the United States, the generating function is primarily performed by the services. For the
  United States, this function is performed by its military schools, training centers, and arsenals. FSF
  institutional forces refer to the capability and capacity of the FSF to organize, train, equip, and build operating
  force units. FSF operating forces form operating capabilities through the use of concepts similar to
  warfighting functions to achieve FSF security objectives.
  Note. Employing operational forces to fill SFA capabilities associated with developing the FSF
  generating function (FSF tasks such as “develop FSF doctrine” or “stand up a staff officer’s
  college”), and possibly in the FSF executive function (ministries) would likely be beyond the
  inherent capability of the operating force and would likely require special training or augmentation
  by subject matter experts drawn from U.S. generating organizations.
  8-235. U.S. operating forces are typically better suited to develop FSF operating force capabilities than they
  are to develop FSF institutional forces of generating capabilities. Typically, the BCT is tasked to train or
  advise FSF operating forces. The operating function employs military capabilities through application of the
  warfighting functions of command and control, movement and maneuver, intelligence, fires, sustainment,
  and protection during actual operations. Operating, as it applies to police security forces, may include training
  an actual operation with the integration of patrolling, forensics, apprehension, intelligence, investigations,
  incarceration, communications, and sustainment. Operating forces are responsible for collective training and
  performing missions assigned to the unit.
  SECURITY FORCEASSISTANCE TASKS
  8-236. SFA activities normally use the following general developmental tasks of organize, train, equip,
  rebuild and build, advise and assist, and assess (known as OTERA-A). These functional tasks, serving as
  SFA capability areas, are used to develop the capabilities required by the FSF. OTERA-A tasks are tools to
  develop, change, or improve the capability and capacity the FSF. Through a baseline assessment of the FSF,