1. Civil Affairs Capabilities and Deployment CPT Marshall Sybert
Civil Affairs Information Brief
Civil Affairs Capabilities and Deployment
CPT Marshall Sybert

2. Civil Affairs Information Brief
Purpose
To provide a general overview of the
Capabilities and Employment of the Civil
Affairs.

3. Civil Affairs Information Brief
References
FM 41-10, Civil Affairs Operations, FEB 2000
U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command
Global Security / Civil Affairs

4. Civil Affairs Information Brief
Outline
Purpose
References
History
Organization
Units
Capabilities
Functions
Mission Activities
Deployment
Summary
Questions

5. 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

6. Civil Affairs Information Brief
History Continued
- Numerous Operations and Missions
- Panama
- Southwest Asia
- Somalia
- Haiti
- Bosnia / Kosovo
- Afghanistan / Iraq

7. 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.

8. 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

9. Civil Affairs Information Brief
CA Units
SOCOM
USACAPOC (Abn)
CACOM X
CA BN II
CA BN (SO)
CA BDE
Number varies based on CACOM
= Active Component
= U.S. Army Reserve

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CA BN (USAR) II
CA BN I I I
CA HHC
CA CO
CA Functional Specialty CO
CATA

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

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

14. Civil Affairs Information Brief
Capabilities
- CA Functional Specialists
- Work at the operational and strategic
level (national or regional level)
- Reserve CA Brigades and Commands

15. 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

16. 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.

17. 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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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

19. Civil Affairs Information Brief
Summary
History
Organization
Units
Capabilities
Functions
Mission Activities
Deployment

20. Questions?