PRT – Oruzgan

Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) – Oruzgan.

24 May 2007

PRT Uruzgan is the civil-military team in Oruzgan province, established by the U.S and now Dutch-led. The Australian Reconstruction Task Force is part of the PRT.

Government sources

PRT Briefing, Tarin Kowt 2006

Dutch military Powerpoint briefing.

Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan: An Interagency Assessment, Department of State, Office of the Coordinator for Stabilization and Reconstruction, Department of Defense, Joint Center for Operational Analysis/U.S. Joint Forces Command, U.S. Agency for International Development, Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination, USAID, June 2006

[For Dutch-English translation: Babel Fish]

Deployment

Nation-building activities by Australian PRT in Uruzgan, Financial Times, 14 October 2009

Australia has deployed a 10-person medical team to support the Dutch medical facility in Tarin Kowt.

Analysis

Provinciaal Reconstructie Team/Provincial Reconstruction Team: Uruzgan Weblog [Dutch and English]

[For Dutch-English translation: Babel Fish]

Provincial reconstruction team, Wikipedia

Updated listing of all US and ISAF PRTs.

Counterinsurgency diplomacy: Political advisors at the operational and tactical levels , Dan Green, Military Review, May-June 2007

“In Afghan provinces such as Uruzgan, the homeland of Taliban founder Mullah Omar and the site of an active Taliban insurgency, DOS personnel have played an integral role in a comprehensive counterinsurgency strategy. What follows are some thoughts on how the DOS may want to incorporate its priorities more fully into a military effort. They are gleaned from the author’s one-year tour as the PRT political advisor (POLAD) in Uruzgan.”

Civil-military reconstructions relations – general

Provincial Reconstruction Teams and Humanitarian–Military Relations in Afghanistan, Save the Children, 2004

The Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan and its role in reconstruction, Center for Humanitarian Cooperation, 31 May 2003

Dated but still important review of civil-military reconstruction aims and activities.

Provincial Reconstruction Teams In Afghanistan: An Interagency Assessment, Department of State, Office of the Coordinator for Stabilization and Reconstruction; Department of Defense, Joint Center for Operational Analysis/U.S. Joint Forces Command; U.S. Agency for International Development, Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination, June 2006

“Provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) have been an effective tool for stabilization in Afghanistan, strengthening provincial and district-level institutions and empowering local leaders who support the central government. In many locations, PRTs have helped create conditions that make increased political, social, and economic development possible. Three years into implementation, and with transitions to International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) control accelerating, the assessment, dissemination, and application of lessons learned is appropriate and important to U.S. government (USG) national objectives. Over the past three years, the operational center of gravity for security, reconstruction, and governance has been slowly shifting away from Kabul to Afghanistan’s provinces. National programs are adjusting to this shift, but their geographic reach is limited in many of Afghanistan’s dangerous and remote areas. This means that PRTs will continue to be a primary vehicle for USG and international stabilization efforts.”

Afghanistan Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs), Oral Histories Project on Stability Operations, United States Institute for Peace

“The Afghanistan Experience Project collected lessons learned by Provincial Reconstruction Teams by interviewing 52 government officials, military officers, and representatives of international and non-governmental organizations who had served in Afghanistan.”

PRT – Oruzgan

Government sources

Deployment

Analysis

Civil-military reconstructions relations – general

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