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Civil Affairs Assessment Methodology

Civil Affairs Assessment Methodology. Currency and Proficiency. Generalist/specialist certifications Regional orientation Language. Review Mission Related Material. Identify specified/implied tasks Extract task organization Identify administrative and logistic relationships

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Civil Affairs Assessment Methodology

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  1. Civil Affairs Assessment Methodology

  2. Currency and Proficiency • Generalist/specialist certifications • Regional orientation • Language

  3. Review Mission Related Material • Identify specified/implied tasks • Extract task organization • Identify administrative and logistic relationships • Identify command and signal requirements

  4. Collect CA/CMO Related Information • Preliminary assessment • CA database • Status of non-military organizations and agencies • Identify possible SMEs for reachback support (to include non-traditional sources)

  5. Methodology • Assess - Conduct initial assessment (CA-SCOPE) • Estimate - Develop/wargame COAs • Decide - Best COA; Develop the CMO plan (logical Lines of Operations) • Detect - Employ CA assets; CMOCs • Deliver - Engage CMO hasty and programmed “targets” • Evaluate - CA/CMO MOEs (BDAs) • Transition - Terminate or transition civil-military tasks.

  6. ASSESS (CA-SCOPE) • Areasof Operation (include key aspects of the commander’s battlespace) • Political boundaries • Centers of government • Open areas for possible temporary settlement • Agricultural and mining regions • Other significant geographic and economic features

  7. ASSESS (CA-SCOPE) • Structuresinclude not only traditional HPTs but • Cultural sites • Facilities with practical applications-jails, warehouses, and schools • Power plants • Water purification plants w/water and sewage treatment systems • Radio/TV antennas with the size and listening area, and times of operation

  8. ASSESS (CA-SCOPE) • Capabilities, an ally’s or aggressor’s ability to provide services • Indicators of policing • Emergency routine/medical services • Temporary shelters • Public administration • Re-establishing industrial and agricultural capability

  9. ASSESS (CA-SCOPE) • Organizations, locations and meeting cycles • Key IOs/NGOs (UNHCR, WFP, OFDA…) • Governing bodies • Health services • Legal and law enforcement • Religious, fraternal groups • Transnational corporations • Community watch organizations

  10. ASSESS (CA-SCOPE) • People, include key personnel and linkage to the population • All the civilians in and outside the AO • Leaders, figureheads, clerics • SMEs (Computer and communications specialists, sewage plant operator) • CA force structure • Demobilized soldiers

  11. ASSESS (CA-SCOPE) • Events, cycles and seasons • Harvest and planting seasons • Significant weather events (floods) • Elections • School year, fiscal year • Holidays (religious periods, traditional vacation time)

  12. ESTIMATE: Alternative COAs • Participate in collaborative planning • Develop/war-game COAs • Prepare mission planning products • Maintain vertical and lateral communications

  13. Mission Planning Products • Strive for input from indigenous institutions • Seek input from International Organizations and Non-Governmental Organizations • Provide input and coordinate with related annexes, such as engineers, logistics, Information Operations, and interagency • CA execution matrix

  14. DECIDE: Best COA • Develop the CMO plan (logical Lines of Operations) • Finalize mission planning products

  15. Civilian Centers of Gravity Those locations, capabilities, institutions/ people, or events from which a threat derives its freedom of action, physical strength, or will to fight. Destruction, neutralization or enhancement of the center of gravity is the most direct path to victory.

  16. Decisive Civil Engagement Point A decisive “civil” engagement point is a geographic place, specific key event, or enabling system that allows commanders to gain a marked advantage over the effected populace and greatly influence the outcome of an engagement…Operational art consists in part of selecting from all possible decisive points the ones that will enhance the civil center of gravity the most quickly and efficiently.

  17. NCI’s/TCI’s • Named Civil Interest – An area, structure, capability, organization, person, or event of the effected population upon which activity is expected. Activity or lack of activity within an NCI will help to confirm or deny a particular civil course of action. • Targeted Civil Interest – The area, structure, capability, organization, person, or event of the effected population successful interdiction will cause the populace to either abandon a particular course of action or require him to use specialized support to continue, where he can be acquired and engaged by friendly forces. Not all TCIs will form part of the friendly course of action; only TCIs associated with high-payoff targets are of interest to the staff.

  18. Disseminate the Plan • Brief synchronization matrix • Brief aspects to supporting and supported IO/NGOs

  19. DETECT:Establish CMOCs • First steps: plan and coordinate with non-military organizations • Mission, Enemy, Terrain, Troops- Time, Civil Considerations (METT-TC) • Establish at Multiple Levels (Strategic to Tactical)

  20. Shaded Area “ Shared Top Level Classification Info Area Commander Coalition / Combined Task Force (CCTF) Special Access Ops (SOF) Classification: Secret – MNF REL Classification: Case by Case DCCTF Coalition Coordination Center (CCC) Civil-Military Operations Center (CMOC) Personal Staff COS C1Personnel C2Intel C3Operations C4Logistics C5Plans C6Comms C7Civil/Mil CTF Planning Process (PLANS, FOPS, COPS) (MNF Top Level Classification) Coalition / Combined Logistics Coordination Center (CLCC) Secret – MNF REL Effective Multinational and CTF Media Support Staffs (Coalition / Combined Media Pools) LIAISON & COORD = MNF REL = MULTINATIONAL RELEASABLE

  21. CMOC Definition #1 The CMOC is an operations center formed from CA assets and serves as the primary interface between the US Armed Forces and the local population, humanitarian organizations, NGOs, IOs, the UN, multinational forces, and other agencies of the US Government. FM 41-10 Appendix H, Feb 2000

  22. Basic CMOC Structure Director Information Branch Security Branch Liaison Officer To Military, NGO/GO/IO Liaison Officer From Military, NGO/GO/IO Plans Administrative Section Logistics Section Operations

  23. Criteria • The CMOC should be given a specific task and purpose, such as a TASKORD. • A METT-TC analysis of this task and purpose will determine the exact structure, equipment, manning, location, and operational requirements • CA Teams and CA Planning Teams at all command levels are tasked with establishing CMOCs to support CMO at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels.

  24. Inside the Wire

  25. Outside the Wire

  26. Mobile CMOCs

  27. As a Coordination Center • Develop CMO Annexes / Estimates, Area Studies • Acts as a clearing house for all Civilian requests for support from US forces • Acts as a clearing house for all NGO/IO and other government agencies requesting support from US forces • Requests FNS from civilian organizations • Eliminates redundancy, prioritizes relief efforts • Record, archive, and duplicate documentation • Evaluating MOEs (SPHERE standards) • Conducts mediation

  28. Request for Assistance(RFA) Flow LOCAL NATIONALS HOST NATION, ALLIES IO/NGO/GO CMOC VALID RFA G3/S3 RFA APPROVAL/ DISAPPROVAL CMO SECTION* IF YES-FRAGO * Coordinates, validates, and prepares FRAGOs for RFAs SUPPORTED UNIT

  29. Accomplishing the Mission • The CMOC continues to monitor the civil component of the OA • The CMOC maintains maps/overlays • Current Friendly/Enemy situations • Current/Planned DC Operation • Status of Arts, Monuments, and Archives • Charts on-going work requests, logistics, DC statistics, SITREPS • Tracks MOEs and Transition

  30. Digital and Video Cameras Voice Recorders TV/VCR/Satellite TV Document Scanners Copy Machines OE-254 antenna Telephones/answering machine Generator Handheld metal detector Typewriter Butcher Block Easels Dry-Erase Boards Conference Table Mailbox System Corkboard Field Safe/Desk Items to Maintain the CMOC

  31. Various CMOC Meetings • A CMOC may sponsor various types of meetings • Information Meetings – CMOC representatives provide information to attendees on security environment, status of RFAs • Coordination Meetings – Participants have decision making authority to coordinate operations and resources for their particular agency • Negotiations – CMOC personnel mediate agreements

  32. Weekly CMOC Activities(Example) • Mon – Town Hall Meeting held every Monday at 1400 hours in the local church/school to discuss local issues/complaints • Tue – Radio Iliria Weekly Meeting, 0900 for station staff and the S5 to ensure TF CDR and radio show host are prepared for possible issue that may arise - Serb Mayor’s meeting held every Tuesday 1300 hours. Gather all six K-Serb Mayors to discuss/resolve issues • Wed – Four Pillars Meeting – UNHCR, UNMIK, OSCE and KDG meet for dinner at TF Dining Facility, discuss and resolve issues

  33. Deliberate Assessments • Validate the plan • Develop the situation • Establish relationships and rapport

  34. Refine the Plan and Issue FRAGO • Further develop supporting plans for civil Lines of Operations (LOs) • Validate Measures of Effectiveness

  35. Execute CA Mission Activities • Focus on end-state objectives • Set conditions for transition of civil-military tasks

  36. EVALUATE: Effectiveness • Evaluate CA mission activities against planned MOEs • If MOEs are met, prepare to transition CA activities according to the transition plan • If MOEs not met, refine the plan and issue FRAGO

  37. Measuring “Civil” BDA • Engaging sources of strength: • International support/recognition • Desire for independence • Cultural identity/tradition • Desire to join Western alliance • Engaging sources of vulnerabilities: • Deteriorated infrastructure • Lack of public services • Absence of rule of law • Lack of democratic legitimacy

  38. TRANSITION: Operations • Review transition plan • Conduct required coordination • Refine transition plan • Terminate or transfer CA tasks • Evaluate results of transition • Conduct after action review • Redeploy • Monitor transferred tasks

  39. Review Transition Plan • Identify tasks to be transferred • Identify transition type - Termination - Transfer of Authority - Transfer to non-military organization • Identify transition timeline • Identify transition MOEs

  40. CA Transition Operations (continued) • Conduct required coordination • Refine transition plan • Terminate or transfer CA tasks • Evaluate results of transition • Conduct after action review • Redeploy

  41. Monitor Transferred Tasks • Check for durability of task • Watch for potential unintended second or third order effects • Prepare to reengage as necessary or directed

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