Provincial Reconstruction Teams and Their Effectiveness on Stability Operations in Afghanistan

This report focuses on the Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) in Afghanistan ability to reduce insurgent activity and protect the local populace. PRT units have a bottom-up approach that allows greater flexibility in community oriented objectives, troop levels, and funding request. In addition this analysis will explain the differences across PRT units, and more specifically why American-led units have had more success completing their objectives than their North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies.