Posted on Oct 7, 2019
Civil Reconnaissance Teams: The Expeditionary Arm of Civil Affairs Forces | Small Wars Journal
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"The unfortunate truth is that supported commands are not nearly as aware or informed of what Civil Affairs offers as other branches. Every commander knows that the role of the Infantry is to close with and destroy the enemy. Not every commander knows that Civil Affairs Soldiers and Marines are his or her sensors on the battlefield. According to Dr. Nadia Schadlow, the primary author behind the 2017 National Security Strategy, CA assets have proven “useful in such a wide range of operations that their relationship to war had been obfuscated.”2 This slows the integration process and complicates relationships within the Joint Force."
Civil Reconnaissance Teams: The Expeditionary Arm of Civil Affairs Forces | Small Wars Journal
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Civil Affairs
38B: Civil Affairs Specialist
38A: Civil Affairs Officer
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I will have more to say on this when I have a bit more time to comment. But I would say the problem isn't that commanders dont know what CA does, it is that CA often does what it wants and does not synchronize properly in planning, course of action development, and supporting the main effort. CA gets bogged down in side missions a lot.
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LTC Eric Udouj
Top - I often see it as CA not being synchronized nor in the initial coordination in the planning from the start that does exactly that! And when you are not in the initial planning - you are a 2d thought as to everything and you hit it right on the head as to what happens next!
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