1-56. As security increases within the consolidation area and, eventually, the entire AO, the focus on stability operations will also increase. The six stability tasks are establish civil security, establish civil control, restore essential services, support governance, support economic and infrastructure development, and conduct security cooperation. Stability tasks shape the OE to set conditions for a transition to legitimate authorities assuming responsibility for the area. Commanders and staffs use a targeting methodology to determine what effects must be created and how to create them in order to shape the environment for successful transition to civil control. This begins during planning, as leaders determine the desired end state and objectives as well as the effects that they must create in order to achieve those objectives and reach that end state.