Civil Military Operations Center

DRAFT 29 June, 1999

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Contents

General
Manning
Organization
Operational Tasks
References
Tactical Tasks

General

The CMOC will be the focal point for all CMO activities. The organization of the CMOC is theater and mission dependent, which is meant to be flexible in size and composition. The CMOC will be the point of interface between U.S. armed forces and indigenous civilian governments and populations, other U.S. government organizations, International organizations (IOs), non-government organizations (NGOs), and private volunteer organizations (PVOs). The CMOC will: Prepare and coordinate CMO planning team support. The planning team will determine CA personnel augmentation requirements for mission accomplishment. Provide or direct, as necessary, civil affairs augmentation for assessment team if required. Provide or direct, as necessary, CMO support to CEAC until arrival of CMO planning team in theater. The responsibilities of the CMOC staff will include formulating and providing CMO policy recommendations to the CEAC and generally planning and implementing CMOC in support of the stated mission, to achieve the following goals:

• To support EAC operations by preventing civilian interference with mission accomplishment, and by safeguarding and utilizing in a manner consistent with international law the civilian population, labor, resources, and facilities available in the area of operations to help accomplish the mission.
• To promote cooperation with and support for the EAC on the part of the individual citizens and the government of the host country.
• To ensure fulfillment of the applicable international legal obligations of the U.S. arising from treaties, other international agreements, or customary international law, particularly with regard to the safety and welfare of the civilian population.
• To support and implement the national policies of the U.S. as reflected in the mission of the EAC by creating favorable attitudes among local civilians and by fostering civilian assistance in intelligence matters.
• To ensure adequate care and control of refugees, evacuees and displaced persons in the AOR.
• To facilitate coordination between civil and military authorities so as to ensure, when necessary, smooth and expeditious evacuation of U.S. and other friendly non-combatants, effective disaster relief, essential population and resource control, and satisfactory handling of public health problems.

Specific functions include:

• Civil Military Operations estimate. A CMO estimate will be prepared for the EAC Commander. The CMO estimate will assist the EAC Commander during the planning process by evaluating political, economic, and sociological conditions and weighing the effects of these conditions on different COAs.
• Periodic CA report. Each CA unit/ team operating in the AOR will submit a daily CA update to the EAC CMOC.
• The CMOC will prepare CMO guidelines, CMO annexes to OPLANS, and host nation assessments.
• The CMOC will establish liaison and coordination with civilian and non-US-military organizations operating in the AOR. The CMOC will be the central coordination cell for all humanitarian assistance activities.
• CMOC will brief the EAC Commander and staff on all CMO issues.
• Meetings with civilian organizations will be scheduled as needed to gather information on humanitarian assistance requirements and to ascertain impact of military operations on the civilian sector.
• The CMOC will be prepared to operate on 24 hour basis.

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Organization

The CMOC may be established as a separate staff directorate reporting directly to the EAC/COS or within the operations directorate to facilitate integration into all operations. The criteria for choosing one organization over the other is the degree to which the EAC is established.  If the mission is more intensively stability or support the CMOC is more efficiently organized directly under the COS.  If the EAC mission is predominately offensive or defensive the CMOC is efficiently organized under the operations section.  The CMOC will be comprised of two elements: Core Billets and Supplemental Billets.

• Core billets will provide the initial planning support to the EAC. This nucleus will prepare a message requesting immediate CA support. Message will be coordinated with personnel and released by the operations section. Support requested will be a planning cell (2-5 personnel) to assist in identifying the size and tailoring of a CA package required to support the mission. Core billets are those personnel permanently assigned to the corps with the dual function of deploying during a crisis for the single purpose of establishing the CMOC.
• Upon arrival the planning cell will be briefed on the mission, by the JPGTT or the operations section in a more developed situation, and provided an update on all planning accomplished to date. Planning cell must report to EAC HQ NLT 96 hours after notification.
• Based on mission analysis the CMOC will prepare a second message requesting the supplemental CMOC billets as identified in the EAC manning document and request CA personnel/units required for mission accomplishment.  These supplemental billets are to accomplish the manning requirement for the entire operation.  The request is sent to the personnel and operations sections for action.
• Once core billets personnel are capable of planning beyond mission analysis mission hand off between theater command and the EAC for CMO within the JOA begins even before all supplemental billets have been filled.  It is essential the core billets assume conduct of CMO operations within JOA at the earliest possible time to provide the staff focus necessary for success within the JOA.

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Critical References

• Joint Pub 3-57, Doctrine for Joint CA, 25 Oct 91.
• DoD Directive 2000.13, Civil Affairs, 27 Jun 94.
• FM 41-10, Civil Affairs Operations, 11 Jan 93.
• FM 100-25, Doctrine for Army SOF, 12 Dec 91.

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Manning

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Operational Tasks

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Tactical Tasks

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