Valued Sustainable Services: Building Partnership Capacity Through Collaborating Approaches

Authors

Linton Wells II, Center for Technology and National Security Policy, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University

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Description

The Valued Sustainable Services (ValSServ) concept is an approach to building the capacity of local populations. It emphasizes the interdependency among telecommunications, reliable power, and information-sharing support, and encourages projects to be developed in integrated packages rather than in stovepiped lines of effort.¹ ValSServ focuses on bottomup projects in complex civil-military operations² that can be funded, planned, and executed at local levels, while being consistent with top-down national and theater strategies. It takes a system-of-systems approach,³ recognizing that successful projects can generate positive ripple effects in local environments and throughout extended networks. This paper focuses on ValSServ within the wide range of U.S. Department of Defense operating environments, such as capacitybuilding to help shape peacetime conditions in partner nations, post-disaster recovery, and helping to move from the “hold” to the “build” phases in counterinsurgency operations.⁴

Document Type

Policy Brief

Publication Date

7-2013

Publication

Defense Horizons

Publisher

National Defense University Press

City

Washington, DC

Recommended Citation

Wells, Linton II, "Valued Sustainable Services: Building Partnership Capacity Through Collaborating Approaches" (2013). Defense Horizons. 10.
https://digitalcommons.ndu.edu/defense-horizons/10