Military Assistance to Civil Authority: When and Where Should Leader Development Begin?

Abstract

Education, leader development, training, and motivation are critical to the success of the United States Army. Responding appropriately to disaster relief operations or other type of civil support operations requires Soldiers to have the right mindset when conducting these missions. The right mindset means Soldiers realizing they are not in charge but in support of providing Military Assistance to Civil Authorities (MACA). Many Soldiers have not always understood this proper relationship, and the Army must educate its leaders on the roles and responsibilities of conducting civil support operations. Prior to disaster relief or civil support operations, the military needs to educate and to develop its leaders on MACA. Doing so not only increases the leaders' self awareness about military support but builds flexibility within an organization. The importance of conducting MACA operations requires the military to identify and to develop appropriate education measures and to teach those measures as part of an individual's career progression. This Strategy Research Project (SRP) will examine how much MACA education is needed and at what point in a leader's career. It concludes with recommendations to enhance MACA education as part of leader development and proposes methods to improve leader self-development.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 18, 2005
Accession Number
ADA434426

Entities

People

  • J. K. Chesney

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Disasters
  • Distance Learning
  • Doctrine
  • Emergency Response
  • Homeland Defense
  • Homeland Security
  • Military Assistance
  • Military Education
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Students
  • United States
  • United States Northern Command
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation