Civil Affairs Campaign Planning for Complex Contingency Operations: Getting It Right.

Abstract

Recent military operations in Haiti and Bosnia have shown that civil-military tasks are crucial to the overall accomplishment of the mission. Operations of this nature require coordination of U.S. interagency participants, international relief organizations, and military participants. Current U.S. policy for interagency coordination of Complex Contingency Operations is contained in Presidential Decision Directive 56. This directive does not consider the important role of the Combatant CINC in planning or executing the civil-military objectives inherent in this type of operation and how they must be synchronized with the interagency process. This paper will focus on integration of the interagency process and Civil Affairs Campaign Planning by the Combatant CINC. It will analyze interagency and military aspects of planning, training, force requirements, coordination, deployment, and employment of interagency and military assets in a complex contingency operation while providing recommendations on improving this relationship.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 12, 1999
Accession Number
ADA364593

Entities

People

  • Bob Chadwick

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Department Of Defense
  • Doctrine
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Interagency Coordination
  • International Organizations
  • Military Education
  • Military Operations
  • Military Planning
  • Military Science
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • United States
  • United States Transportation Command
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.