Hi Mike,

1. DEFINE THE ENVIRONMENT
[1/2a. Prepare General Area Study before insertion]
a. Conduct Covert Infiltration and Reconnaissance
b. Conduct Leadership Engagements
Talk with local leaders ?
c. Develop hypothesis of current situation
[d. Prepare Area Assessment Study (updated throughout employment)]
2. CLEAR and SEIGE
[1/2a. Bring in indigenous security forces - need something to FID in phase 3a; and also a permanent presence in area for this and succeeding stages]
a. Establish a Patrol Base
b. Control the Terrain
c. Control the Population
d. Destroy the Counter-State's infrastructure and support networks
What mean "destroy" ? Same as CORDS-Phoinix "neutralize", which translated to roughly 1/3 kill, 1/3 capture & detain, 1/3 convert ? Some legal issues here.
e. Disrupt the Counter-State's influence over the population
IO and the "Political Struggle" ? If so, need indigenous political cadres.
3. HOLD
a. Transition to Foreign Internal Defense
b. Destroy the Residual Enemy Presence
Same questions as 2d.
c. Confront the Sheiks
[co-opt ?]
d. Restore Essential Services

4. BUILD
a. Restore Governance
[see 2e comment]
b. Restore Essential Services
[continuing 3d. ?]
c. Establish a Police or constabulary force
"Ruff-Puffs" should be in play, in and after phase 2. Here, as part of 4a., we are talking two things: 4c1. Establish a criminal justice system; and 4c2. Establish a civil justice system (there is more civil justice in a community than criminal justice), which must contain a process to enforce good governance and allow the masses' complaints to be heard
d. Conduct reconciliation
[optional - cf. Peace Enforcement & Peacekeeping, etc.]
e. Conduct humanitarian assistance

We've done all this - or at least tried to - as laid out by BG Tran Dinh Tho, Pacification (1977; one of the Indochina Monographs - 7mb DL).

Regards,

Mike