updated 10 April 2014
Instructor Karen Guttieri Phone 831-869-5275
Office Quarters E Building 279/ soon Quarters C
Office hours as scheduled and by appointment
E-mail guttieri@nps.edu
Meetings Thursdays 3-5 in Quarters E and Adobe Connect
The Global Public Policy Academic Group announces a Directed Study in Civil Affairs and the
Human Domain for the Academic Year 2014 Spring Quarter. This study will investigate current directions in policy and mission of military professionals in the human domain. The civil dimension of military operations is currently prominent in US Special Operations Command’s term “human domain” describing part of the battlespace, and the US Army Training and
Doctrine Command’s study of the “human dimension.” The Army is now instituting a new Civil
Affairs military occupational specialty, designated the 38G, and the US Navy has just disestablished its Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training (MCAST) Command. What are the implications and ramifications of these new directions in policy and practice? In a world that is becoming more urbanized, networked, and littoral, are there still requirements for Maritime Civil
Affairs? How will those challenges be addressed? These and other immediate challenges in setting the course of policy across the sectors of rule of law, governance, safe & secure environment, social well-being, and economy & sustainable development will be investigated through lecture, discussion, and self-directed study.
This will be offered as a 2-0 course. There are no prerequisites beyond an intense interest and desire to study this complex area of military operations. Location/days/times will be determined later based on student response. Pending student interest, the course may be repeated in the
Summer 2014 quarter.

Students will have opportunity to contribute to current research in defining requirements for the
38G position and for investigating the future of Maritime Civil Affairs. For students interested in modeling complex environments, there will be opportunity to contribute to formulation of a model of the principal sectors (rule of law, governance, safe & secure environment, etc.) and their interrelationships.
Army Civil Affairs Questions
1.
What are the activities of the 38G?
[Vacha white paper, Vacha spreadsheet and CRC as starting point]
2.
What do the 38G need to know?
[IPRs, Guiding Principles]
3.
According to the requirements, who are the 38G? a.
What are the classifications?
[Guiding Prinicples, IPRs] b.
How to write the job descriptions
[functional specialties brief, ROL, Soc and Econ examples] c.
What are the tiering of the classifications?
[MB Tiering doc] d.
What are the civilian certificates and years of experience required of the 38G?
[IPRs, Dept of Labor, CRC example] e.
Is education or certification development needed?
[IPRs, desk research]
Maritime Security Questions
1. What is the Navy's strategy for the civil dimension? What drove the force structure development for MCAST and MCA? How are MCA recruited and trained? What are the criteria to measure effectiveness of Aquaculture, Community Watch on the Water, and other Navy Maritime Civil Affairs programs?
2. What conditions are changing that affect the work of MCA? What civilian and military capacities are needed for effective civil-military operations in littoral and near-shore environments? What is at risk for nations with troubled coastlines? How is the Navy currently supported by CA in the littoral? Where might those capacities resident elsewhere? Can lessons of recent missions in Kenya, Panama, Tanzania and the
Philippines, for example, be generalized to other locales?
3. What are the lessons from operational experiences that are needed now and for the future? What conditions are changing that may affect operations? How will the DoD perform the maritime civil affairs role in critical regions in future? Is MCAST in the
Reserves the right answer? If MCAST is disbanded, what are the implications for DoD and the whole of government? What alternative capacities might fill any gaps? How will
DoD be able to perform Civil Affairs in the maritime region?

Assignment Points Deadlines
Focus paper proposal 10
60 Research paper
Participation 30
There will be one research paper of 15 pages on a topic relevant to you and a theme from this course. The paper topic will be chosen in consultation with the instructor. The research must include scholarly sources as well as any policy, doctrine and media references relevant to the topic. References will use the Turabian/Chicago manual of style. The papers will be reviewed for plagiarism using Turnitin. You will submit a draft for peer review, and you yourself will review another person’s paper.
Purdue’s Online Writing Lab offers a guide for many types of writing that you will be doing for the certificate courses.
Presentations will be required for many of the assignments. Participation is an important component of the course. This includes engagement online and in-residence.
1. Kilcullen, David, Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
2. USIP and PKSOI, Guiding Principles for Stabilization and Reconstruction. United States
Institute of Peace and United States Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations
Institute, 2009.
3. International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty., Gareth J. Evans,
Mohamed Sahnoun, and International Development Research Centre (Canada). The
Responsibility to Protect : Report of the International Commission on Intervention and
State Sovereignty . Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 2001. http://responsibilitytoprotect.org/ICISS%20Report.pdf
4. Roberts, Adam. " Transformative Military Occupation: Applying the Laws of War and
Human Rights ." The American Journal of International Law 100, no. 3 (2006): 580-622.
5. Sarah Sewall, Dwight Raymond and Sally Chin, Mass Atrocities Response Operations:
A Military Planning Handbook, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, US Army
Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, 2010.
6. United States, Chairman US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Civil-Military Operations , JP 3-57.
Washington, DC: CJCS, 2008.
7. United States, Headquarters Department of the Army. Civil Affairs Operations FM 3.05-
40. Washington, DC: U.S. Army, 2010.

8. ———. Stability Operations, FM 3-07. Washington, DC: U.S. Army, 2008.
9. Readings as assigned.

Introduction to Civil Affairs and Institute for Support to Military Governance
● Study research site for Governance Innovation for Security and Development
● Maritime Civil Affairs research project
● United States, Chairman US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Civil-Military Operations , JP 3-57.
Washington, DC: CJCS, 2008.
● United States, Headquarters Department of the Army. Civil Affairs Operations FM 3.05-
40. Washington, DC: U.S. Army, 2010.
● ———. Stability Operations, FM 3-07. Washington, DC: U.S. Army, 2008.
Refining student interests for graduate programs
● Sites for Stability, Security and Development in Complex Operations and Civil Military
Operations and the Rule of Law curricula
● USIP and PKSOI, Guiding Principles for Stabilization and Reconstruction. United States
Institute of Peace and United States Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations
Institute, 2009.
The Army and Military Governance
● Conference with research faculty
● Masters of Peace
● Guttieri, “The Civil Dimension of Strategy”
Governance in the Maritime Domain
● Prof Jeff Kline
● A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower, 2007
● A Comprehensive Approach to Operations in Complex Environments, 2014
● Kilcullen, David, Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla

● International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty., Gareth J. Evans,
Mohamed Sahnoun, and International Development Research Centre (Canada). The
Responsibility to Protect : Report of the International Commission on Intervention and
State Sovereignty . Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 2001. http://responsibilitytoprotect.org/ICISS%20Report.pdf
●
Sarah Sewall, Dwight Raymond and Sally Chin, Mass Atrocities Response Operations:
A Military Planning Handbook, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, US Army
Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, 2010.
● This is what winning looks like documentary
Roberts, Adam. " Transformative Military Occupation: Applying the Laws of War and Human
Rights ." The American Journal of International Law 100, no. 3 (2006): 580-622.
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