1-35. Military forces can engage at any point along this framework. In each case, achieving the end state requires quickly reducing the level of violence through area security tasks, creating conditions that support safely introducing other government agencies and intergovernmental organizations, and securing critical humanitarian access for nongovernmental organizations by performing stability operations tasks. Consolidation of gains focuses on conditions or variables within the operational environment and transforming conditions toward stability. In a failed or failing state, conditions typically require performance of more area security and civil security tasks to eliminate threats and reduce violence. As conditions of the environment begin to improve, constructive capabilities of military forces, by performing other stability operations tasks, focus on building host-nation capacity and encouraging sustained development. (For more discussion of the fragile states framework, see JP 3-07 and the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Fragile States Strategy.)