The last decade has seen the combatant commands significantly assisted by trend-setting DOD processes including grouping strategic guidance publications within the Guidance for Employment of the Force, the Secretary's In-Progress Reviews of campaign and contingency plans, and the requirement for geographic combatant commands to develop campaign plans for steady-state activities within theaters. Gaps remain that could retard global and theater campaign planning and compromise security cooperation (SC) efforts with partners. As part of a proposed methodology to help planners make difficult SC and other choices, planners must contemplate how planning and executing operations will impact partners through unintended consequences including promoting the security instrument far ahead of other essential institutions and ruining host nation economies by bequeathing fiscally unsustainable apparatuses.