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368 Revista del Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos Núm. 2 / 2013 strictly military operation (planning and military command), in which a -secondary- part of its operation serves in seeking good relations with the civil society in the field of military action. In a Comprehensive Approach operation, the military component, as described above, is only one part of the whole in its planning and direction than that of purely being military and covers the whole spectrum of political, diplomatic, economic, and social nature, etc. 5. Stabilization and reconstruction. NATO needs to improve its stabilization and reconstruction capabilities across an entire conflict. This requires a better on-site coordination with other international organizations and non-governmental organizations. Jakobsen, one of the leading experts on Comprehensive Approach within that organization, states that cultural and operational change is still in its infancy, and there is still a long way for its application to reach the desired efficiency. The institutionalization level of the CA (Comprehensive Approach) within the Alliance is still in its first stage. At the strategic level, the concepts of CA, its doctrine and procedures have not been formally adopted. Even though the institutionalization process will benefit from the principles of CA in the Doctrines of CIMIC and PSA (Peace corps Public Service An-nouncements), a number of CA initiatives undertaken by ACT (Allied Command Trans-formation) and the NATO School course on PRT (Provincial Reconstruction Teams), will still take a long time. NATO has made ​​great progress in terms of CA in Afghanistan, but the degree of institutionalization is still low. The ISAF Headquarters still has little influence on the 26 PRTs. Neither the use of consultants in the development of the Command team of ISAF nor the practice of involving civilian as participants in the ISAF planning process has it been institutionalized. Finally, the added value of the NATO SCR (Senior Civilian Representative) is still not clear.31 Julian Lindley-French, a member of the board of experts of the Atlantic Council, published a paper in June 2010. She believes that this concept is vital to the future ope-rations of the organization. The “hybrid” way, of dealing with conflict confron-tations wherein the military is inevitably mixed with civilians, challenges the viability of the operations. If the Strategic Concept is not written with at least the comprehension of the fundamental elements that makes an operation effective in this hybrid method of handling conflicts, then the Alliance could survive as a political organization but its effective power and credibility could diminish to the point where its operational role of dissuasion could disappear altogether.32 Thus a paradoxical situation can be reached, to the point of reaching its military 31  JAKOBSEN, P. V. NATO’s Comprehensive Approach to Crisis Response Operations. A Work in Slow Progress. Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS Report, 2008, p. 4. 32  LINDLEY-FRENCH, J. Operationalizing the Comprehensive Approach. Atlantic Council, Issue Brief, 2010, p. 2.


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