Civil Affairs Capabilities and Deployment

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Civil Affairs Information Brief

• Civil Affairs Capabilities and Deployment
• CPT Marshall Sybert

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Civil Affairs Information Brief

• Purpose
• To provide a general overview of the
• Capabilities and Employment of the Civil
• Affairs.

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Civil Affairs Information Brief

• References
• FM 41-10, Civil Affairs Operations, FEB 2000
• U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological
  Operations Command
• http//www.soc.mil/usacapoc/capoc_default.htm
• Global Security / Civil Affairs
• http//www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army
  /ca-psyop.htm

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Civil Affairs Information Brief

• Outline
• Purpose
• References
• History
• Organization
• Units
• Capabilities
• Functions
• Mission Activities
• Deployment
• Summary
• Questions

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Civil Affairs Information Brief

• History
• - Branch traces back to expansion of the War
  Department during WWII
• - AUG 1955, CA Military Government Branch became
  the USAR Branch
• - OCT 1959, became CA Branch
• - CA Regiment established in 1987
• - Falls under USACAPOC / USASOC

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Civil Affairs Information Brief

• History Continued
• - Numerous Operations and Missions
• - Panama
• - Southwest Asia
• - Somalia
• - Haiti
• - Bosnia / Kosovo
• - Afghanistan / Iraq

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Civil Affairs Information Brief

• Civil Military Operations
• The activities of a commander that establish,
• maintain, influence, or exploit relations between
• military forces, government and non government
• civilian organizations and authorities, and the
• civilian populace in a friendly, neutral, or
  hostile
• area of operations in order to facilitate
  military
• operations and consolidate and achieve U.S.
• objectives.

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Civil Affairs Information Brief

• Organization
• - Supports SOF and Conventional Forces at
  Tactical, Operational, and Strategic Levels
• - Most CA force is in USAR (96)
• - 1 Active CA BN, with 6 companies
• - 4 Reserve CA Commands, 7 Reserve CA BDEs, 24
  Reserve CA BNs

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Civil Affairs Information Brief
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Civil Affairs Information Brief
CA BN (USAR)
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CA Functional Specialty CO

CATA
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Civil Affairs Information Brief

• CACOM Capabilities
• - Train, equip, mobilize, and deploy
• - Provide information to intelligence systems
• - Provide information on cultural considerations
• - Provide a CA plans, programs, and policy team
• - Provide technical expertise in 16 CA
  specialties
• - Provide liaison with GOs, NGOs, and IOs
• - Establish a CMOC as required

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Civil Affairs Information Brief

• Capabilities
• - Primary function is to support CMO
• - Area Expertise, assigned regions
• - Language Experts
• - CA Generalists
• - CA Functional Specialists, 16 skills

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Civil Affairs Information Brief

• Capabilities
• - CA Generalists
• - Work at the tactical or operational level
  (large city or local region)
• - Active CA Battalion (Fort Bragg)
• - Reserve CA Battalions

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Civil Affairs Information Brief

• Capabilities
• - CA Functional Specialists
• - Work at the operational and strategic
• level (national or regional level)
• - Reserve CA Brigades and Commands

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Civil Affairs Information Brief
CA Functions

• Public Administration
• Public Communication
• Public Education
• Public Health
• Public Transportation
• Public Works and Utilities
• Dislocated Civilians
• Environmental Management

• Economic Development
• Food and Agriculture
• Legal Systems
• Civil Information
• Civilian Supply
• Cultural Affairs
• Property Control
• Emergency Services

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Civil Affairs Information Brief
Civil Affairs (CA) Activities

• Activities performed or supported by CA
• Embrace the relationship between military forces
  and civil authorities in areas where military
  forces are present, and
• Involve the application of Civil Affairs
  functional specialty skills, in areas normally
  the responsibility of civil government, to
  enhance the conduct of civil-military operations.

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Civil Affairs Information Brief

• Civil Affairs Activities (Missions)
• - Foreign Nation Support
• - Populace and Resource Control
• - Humanitarian Assistance
• - Military Civic Action
• - Emergency Services
• - Support to Civil Administration

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Civil Affairs Information Brief

• Deployment
• - CMOC (Civil Military Operations Center)
• - Coordination Center between Military forces
  and populace, GOs, NGOs, and IOs
• - JCMOTF (Joint Civil-Military Operations Task
  Force
• - Not a CA Organization, made up of two or more
  services

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Civil Affairs Information Brief

• Summary
• History
• Organization
• Units
• Capabilities
• Functions
• Mission Activities
• Deployment

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Questions?