"The military's relatively new "full spectrum" approach to warfare emphasizes that military and other U.S. interagency partners must address the full gamut of needs of nations defeated in war or ravaged by natural or manmade catastrophes. U.S. interagency partners discuss which organizations are going to focus on what needs but give little attention to defining the attributes of well-functioning political, economic, informational, and cultural institutions. Military manuals and civilian agency policies say little about what types of political institutions or processes can achieve sustainable peace, justice, and progress; what types of institutions or processes should ordinarily be avoided; or what economic mechanisms can efficiently and acceptably meet economic ends. There is very little in standing policy that defines what sorts of operational or tactical measures agencies and officers on the ground should take to assure U.S. national strategic objectives are met. The purpose of this paper is to stimulate a dialogue on effective operational and tactical interagency policies."

"November 2010."