The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) International Security Program (ISP) hosted Lt. General William B. Caldwell, USA, Commanding General, United States Army Combined Arms Center and Ft. Leavenworth; to introduce Field Manual 3-07: Stability Operations yesterday. SWJ was able to attend and found the panel discussion very informative as well as interesting. We hope to post some highlights from the discussion here in the near future. In the meantime CSIS has posted video and audio at their web page for this event.

The army's new stability operations doctrine calls for a comprehensive approach to stabilization efforts that envisions integration of a variety of stakeholders not traditionally combined as full partners in complex contingencies. The CSIS panel discussion included Ambassador John Herbst. Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, United States Department of State; Ambassador Dick Solomon, President, United States Institute for Peace; Ambassador Michael Hess, Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, United States Agency for International Development; Samuel A. Worthington, CEO and president of InterAction, Nathan Freier, a senior fellow at CSIS, and Rick Barton, codirector of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project.