Monitoring, Early Warning, Planning

• Identify vulnerable states through new early warning/monitoring system (classified and open-source) with updates every 6 months.
  --Every 6 months, select a limited number of countries for intensive planning.
  --Identify actions to avert crises and prepare for contingencies.
  --Incorporate all key interagency actors – civilian and military, and identify potential partners outside government.
  --Extract generic trends; test plans with interagency exercises.

• Coordinate civilian stabilization and reconstruction participation in military planning and exercises.
  --Deploy Humanitarian, Stabilization, and Reconstruction Team (HSRT) to Combatant Commands to participate in post-conflict planning where U.S. military forces will be heavily engaged.
  --Develop mechanisms for coordinating military and civilian operational planning across the full spectrum of possible military involvement in stabilization and reconstruction (S&R) operations.
  --Issue: clarify budget parameters and legal authorities for military/civilian cooperation on stabilization and reconstruction.