Civil Affairs
Assessment
Methodology
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Currency and Proficiency
• Generalist/specialist certifications
• Regional orientation
• Language
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Review Mission Related
Material
• Identify specified/implied tasks
• Extract task organization
• Identify administrative and logistic
relationships
• Identify command and signal
requirements
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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)
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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.
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ASSESS (CA-SCOPE)
• Areas of 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
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ASSESS (CA-SCOPE)
• Structures include 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
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ASSESS (CA-SCOPE)
• Capabilities, an ally’s or aggressor’s
ability to provide services
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Indicators of policing
Emergency routine/medical services
Temporary shelters
Public administration
Re-establishing industrial and agricultural
capability
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ASSESS (CA-SCOPE)
• Organizations, locations and meeting
cycles
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Key IOs/NGOs (UNHCR, WFP, OFDA…)
Governing bodies
Health services
Legal and law enforcement
Religious, fraternal groups
Transnational corporations
Community watch organizations
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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
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ASSESS (CA-SCOPE)
• Events, cycles and seasons
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Harvest and planting seasons
Significant weather events (floods)
Elections
School year, fiscal year
Holidays (religious periods, traditional
vacation time)
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ESTIMATE: Alternative COAs
• Participate in collaborative planning
• Develop/war-game COAs
• Prepare mission planning products
• Maintain vertical and lateral communications
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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
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DECIDE: Best COA
• Develop the CMO plan (logical Lines of
Operations)
• Finalize mission planning products
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Disseminate the Plan
• Brief synchronization matrix
• Brief aspects to supporting and supported
IO/NGOs
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DETECT: Establish CMOCs
• First steps: plan and coordinate with nonmilitary organizations
• Mission, Enemy, Terrain, TroopsTime,
Civil Considerations (METT-TC)
• Establish at Multiple Levels (Strategic to
Tactical)
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Shaded Area “ Shared Top Level Classification Info Area
Commander
Coalition / Combined
Task Force
(CCTF)
Classification:
Secret – MNF REL
Coalition
Coordination
Center
(CCC)
Special
Access
Ops
(SOF)
DCCTF
Personal Staff
C1
C2
Personnel
Intel
C3
Operations
Classification:
Case by Case
COS
C4
C5
C6
C7
Logistics
Plans
Comms
Civil/Mil
Civil-Military
Operations
Center
(CMOC)
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)
MNF REL = MULTINATIONAL RELEASABLE
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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
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Basic CMOC Structure
Director
Information
Branch
Security Branch
Liaison Officer
To Military,
NGO/GO/IO
Administrative
Section
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Liaison Officer
From Military,
NGO/GO/IO
Logistics
Section
Plans
Operations
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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.
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Inside the Wire
Supported Unit’s TOC
G-5
CMOC
(Opns/Plans)
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Civilian Parking
Fighting Positions -
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(Admin/Log)
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Outside the Wire
Supported Unit’s TOC
G-5
CMOC
(Opns/Plans)
Di
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C
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Va
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CMOC might be alone or
co-located with the HACC
or other similar organizations
CMOC
(Admin/Log)
Military Entrance Gate
Access Controlled
Civilian Parking
Fighting Positions -
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Mobile CMOCs
Supported Unit’s TOC
G-5
Town 1
CMOC
(Opns/Plans)
Di
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Controlled Access
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CMOC
(Admin/Log)
Civilian Parking
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Fighting Positions MOBILE CMOC
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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
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Request for Assistance
(RFA) Flow
LOCAL
NATIONALS
IO/NGO/GO
CMOC
HOST NATION,
ALLIES
VALID RFA
G3/S3
CMO
SECTION*
RFA APPROVAL/
DISAPPROVAL
IF YES-FRAGO
* Coordinates,
validates, and
prepares FRAGOs for
RFAs
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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
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Items to Maintain the CMOC
• Digital and Video
Cameras
• Voice Recorders
• TV/VCR/Satellite TV
• Document Scanners
• Copy Machines
• OE-254 antenna
• Telephones/answering
machine
• Generator
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• Handheld metal
detector
• Typewriter
• Butcher Block Easels
• Dry-Erase Boards
• Conference Table
• Mailbox System
• Corkboard
• Field Safe/Desk
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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
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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
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Deliberate Assessments
• Validate the plan
• Develop the situation
• Establish relationships and rapport
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Refine the Plan and Issue
FRAGO
• Further develop supporting plans for civil
Lines of Operations (LOs)
• Validate Measures of Effectiveness
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Execute CA Mission
Activities
• Focus on end-state objectives
• Set conditions for transition of civilmilitary tasks
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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
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Measuring “Civil” BDA
• Engaging sources of strength:
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International support/recognition
Desire for independence
Cultural identity/tradition
Desire to join Western alliance
• Engaging sources of vulnerabilities:
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Deteriorated infrastructure
Lack of public services
Absence of rule of law
Lack of democratic legitimacy
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TRANSITION: Operations
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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
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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
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CA Transition Operations
(continued)
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•
•
•
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•
Conduct required coordination
Refine transition plan
Terminate or transfer CA tasks
Evaluate results of transition
Conduct after action review
Redeploy
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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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