Leveraging Civil Affairs / presented by the Civil Affairs Association ; edited by Christopher Holshek.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Government document

Contributor:

Holshek, Christopher J., editor.

Civil Affairs Association

Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, issuing body.

Army War College (U.S.)

Conference Name:

Civil Affairs Symposium (4th : 2016 : Mountain View, Calif.) http://viaf.org/viaf/7797160486161105180005, author.

Series:

PKSOI papers

PKSOI paper

Civil Affairs issue papers ; volume 3 (2016/2017)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army. Civil Affairs Corps--Congresses.

United States.

United States. Army--Civil functions--Congresses.

United States. Army--Stability operations--Congresses.

United States. Army. Civil Affairs Corps.

United States. Army.

Civil-military relations--United States--Congresses.

Civil-military relations.

Unified operations (Military science)--Congresses.

Unified operations (Military science).

Armed Forces--Stability operations.

Armed Forces--Civil functions.

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lii, 80 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Carlisle, Pa.] : PKSOI, [2017]

Summary:

FOREWORD. For three years now, the Civil Affairs Association and its partners have provided the Civil Affairs Regiment a way to provide experience-based feedback and advice to institutional and policy level leadership on the future of the Civil Affairs force through an annual fall symposium. These symposia result in Civil Affairs Issue Papers published and presented at the spring roundtable. With every successive year, the discussion has become increasingly impactful, improving the Regi-ment as a learning organization by advancing a unified, whole of CA force view of professional and force development discussion using this unofficial, collegial platform. The 2016 Symposium on "Leveraging Civil Affairs" featured a workshop, led by the International Peace & Security Institute (IPSI), to refine the understanding of what Civil Affairs' most important customers - the Geographic Combatant, Service Component, and Joint Force Commands in each region of the world - should expect CA to contribute to their missions. In turn, this informs CA on what it should be ready to deliver, regardless of source component or service or level of employment - in order to help "prevent, shape, and win" the conflicts of the future. The workshop built upon Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster's 2015 Symposium challenge to the CA Regiment to contribute to the discussion of the future force through the Army Warfighting Challenges. This discussion was motivated by the general recognition of CA's longstanding role as more than a critical "force multiplier" or tactical "enabler" in decisive action. Additionally, it drew on the appreciation of CA as a national strategic capability to consolidate military into political gains by facilitating post-conflict transition from war to peace and from military to civilian lead. More recently, there has been greater recognition of CA's emerging ability to engage a multitude of partners to shape, influence, and stabilize the "human geography" (as the Army calls it) and thus contribute as well to conflict prevention and mitigation across the full range of operations. The Symposium concluded that CA can do so only when appropriately leveraged by regional and operational commanders who understand the strategic value of CA even at the tactical level. The resulting discussion was so rich and substantive we have included an in-depth report with a list of recommendations on issues related to CA force development and integration, accompanying this year's Civil Affairs Issue Papers. It by no means represents a complete consensus; however, we see it as a first and not last word on what we hope will become a CA whole-of-force dialogue to promote changes to policy, doctrine, and other determinants shaping CA force development. The Association, IPSI, the U.S. Army Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute, and their partners will continue support this learning process for Civil Affairs. Our thanks go out in particular to Christopher Holshek and Kevin Melton for preparing the Symposium report, the writers of this year's issue viipapers, and to many others, Maj. Gen. (ret.) Michael Kuehr, Brig. Gen. (ret.) Bruce Bingham, Col. (ret.) Larry Rubini, as well as those mentioned and unmentioned for their contributions to this effort.

Contents:

Foreword / Civil Affairs Association President Joseph P. Kirlin III, International Peace & Security Institute Director Cameron C. Chisholm

Executive Summary

Symposium Workshop Report: "Leveraging Civil Affairs for Full-Range Operations by Theater and Service Commands in the Joint, Interorganizational, and Multinational Environment" Issue Papers. 1. "There are More than Two Crayons in the Box" / Captain John K. Karlsson & Captain Michael K. Karlson

2. "Supporting the Trickiest Task: How Civil Affairs Can Bring Essential and Missing Capabilities to Geographic Combatant Commands' Mandate to Prevent Conflict" / Major Clay Daniels & Ms. Morgan G. Keay

3. "The Present and Emerging Spaces for Leveraging Civil Affairs: How Can Civil Affairs Most Important Customers Best leverage CA's Full Range of Capabilities?" / Colonel John C. Hope (retired)

4. "Changing the Business Model: Leveraging Civil Affairs as an Instrument of Defense Support to Diplomacy and Development" / Major Shafi Saiduddin & Sergeant First Class Robert Schafer

5. "Disrupting Dark Networks in Central America: US SOUTHCOM Leverages Civil Affairs to Meet the Challenge" / Lieutenant Colonel Steve Lewis.

Notes:

"March 15, 2017"--Publisher's website.

Papers presented at the fourth Civil Affairs Symposium on 17-18 November 2016 in Mountain View, California.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (PKSOI website, viewed Nov. 2, 2020).

OCLC:

1013541424