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The Comprehensive Approach was devised to facilitate cooperation between civilian and military actors, to tackle causes of instability and to create a more safe and secure environment in areas of conflict. Due to weak governance and with police and military not up to their job, a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) was needed to bring these goods in Uruzgan. This chapter discusses, against the background of the Netherlands’ contribution to that PRT, the concept of exiting from a civil-military perspective; cooperation during the exit phase is vital in order to secure results reached. In Uruzgan, a short but intense period of cooperation with the Australian successors ensured a relatively smooth handover, with the Australians continuing to work on more or less similar lines as the Dutch had done.
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Olsthoorn, P., Bollen, M., Lobbezoo, E., Rietjens, S. (2016). The Comprehensive Approach and the Problem of Exiting Civil Military Cooperation: Lessons from Uruzgan. In: Noll, J., Wollenberg, D., Osinga, F., Frerks, G., Kemenade, I. (eds) Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2015. NL ARMS. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-078-7_10
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