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This publication examines the challenges that commonly confront Physical Security and Stockpile Management (PSSM) practitioners. The realities involved in transferring standards developed by modern militaries to countries using cold war or colonial-era infrastructure, or recently emerging from conflict, create real obstacles. Host countries typically are in transition phases involving major restructuring of their defence and security sectors, including the downsizing of forces or perhaps the incorporation of rebel groups. It is hoped that future programmes can benefit from the knowledge gained by practitioners’ responses to the challenges that circumstances of this kind present. Yet host nations must have, and sustain, the will to implement improved practices.