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DIPLOMATIC
- Reduce international diplomatic ties
- Increase cultural group pressure
- Alter existing meetings, programs, or schedules
- Prepare to withdraw U.S. embassy personnel
- Pursue measures to increase regional support
- Identify the national leader who may be able to solve the problem
- Develop or work within existing coalition (avoid unilateral actions when possible)
- Alert and introduce special teams: Public diplomacy, MTT, Communication
- Initiate noncombatant evacuation procedures
- Use the UN or other international institutions
- Identify clearly the steps to peaceful resolution
- Restrict activities of diplomats
- Reduce national embassy personnel
- Take actions to win support of allies and friends
- Coordinate efforts to strengthen international support
- Promote democratic elections
- Heighten informational efforts directed at the International community, opinion leaders within the national population, and coalitions formed to overcome the situation
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POLITICAL
- Promote U.S. policy objectives through public policy statements
- Take measures to increase public support
- Keep selected issues as lead stories
- Heighten public awareness of the program and potential for conflict
- Maintain an open dialogue with the press
- Invite in impartial observers
- Impose sanctions on C4I and weapon technology transfer
- Protect friendly C4I assets
- Develop informal as well as formal contacts with international opinion setters
- Increase C4I processing and transmission capability
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ECONOMIC
- Seize real property in the United States
- Embargo goods and services
- Cancel U.S.-funded programs
- Heighten informational efforts directed at Financial institutions
- Reduce or eliminate corporate transactions
- Freeze monetary assets in the United States
- Freeze international assets
- Enact trade sanctions
- Encourage corporations to restrict transactions
- Reduce security assistance programs
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MILITARY
- Deploy Joint Task Force (JTF) Headquarters-Forward to area
- Employ reconnaissance assets to the area
- Increase military exchanges and staff visits to the area
- Conduct aircraft fly-overs
- Pre-stage sealift and airlift reception assets to air and sea ports of embarkation
- Deploy fighter squadrons/AWACS to region
- Deploy the afloat Amphibious Ready Group/ Marine Expeditionary Unit (ARG/MEU) (SOC) to the region
- Open pre-positioned stockage facilities
- Open and secure sea and air Lines of Communications (LOCs)
- Deploy carrier battle group (CVBG) to the region
- Activate reserve call-up
- Initiate or increase show of force actions
- Begin moving forces to air and sea ports of embarkation (APOEs and SPOEs)
- Pre-stage or deploy contingency ready brigades
- Establish curfews and impose restrictions on leaves, separations, and retirements
- Implement meaconing, interference, jamming, and intrusion of enemy information assets
- Deploy naval Surface Action Group (SAG) to the region
- Move Maritime Prepositioning Ships (MPS) to the region
- Move Marine Expeditionary Force (FWD) to the region
- Upgrade alert status
- Increase exercise activities, schedules, and scope
- Increase strategic reconnaissance
- Increase naval port calls or air squadron visits to the area
- Use naval or air capability to enforce sanctions
- Deploy intelligence collection and analysis to the area
- Exercise WMD passive defense
- Pre-stage airlift and airlift support assets
- Deploy J-STARS to the area
- Replace logistic infrastructure where possible
- Increase informational efforts: PSYOP, Mission awareness, Measures directed at the opponent's military force
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