Lanterna Rally

Author: Us Army, United States Government

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2014-05-11

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9781499520361

Army Techniques Publication ATP 3-57.70 Civil-Military Operations Center May 2014 provides techniques for Civil Affairs operations (CAO) planning, training, and execution of doctrinal guidance for commanders and their staff and for leaders who are responsible for establishing a civil-military operations center (CMOC) to conduct CAO. These doctrinal principles are intended to be used as a guide and are not to be considered prescriptive. This manual portrays a framework in which a CMOC supports commands from the tactical to strategic level. This publication includes doctrine discussions that are applicable to all Civil Affairs (CA) units supporting the ever-changing civil component of the operational environment (OE). The CMOC provides supported commanders with the control instrument that plans CAO. It assists commands with coordination of civil-military operations (CMO) by providing cultural awareness military-to-host nation (HN) advisory activities and civilian professional skills that parallel governmental functions facilitating stability-oriented unified land operations. Joint operations recognize that military forces alone are not the only actors in an OE. Commanders must leverage the interests and capabilities of the civil component to achieve unified action. Unified land operations are conducted to synchronize, coordinate, and integrate the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities to achieve unity of effort. The CMOC is the doctrinal solution that facilitates unity of effort during unified land operations between the civil environment and military forces conducting operations within a given area of operations (AO). The Army conducts unified land operations. Unified land operations represent the Army's contribution to joint operations and the requirement to achieve unified action. This publication is a new publication that illustrates techniques that Army CA forces utilize to establish a CMOC in order to integrate, coordinate, and/or synchronize with unified action partners. CA forces support the manning of a CMOC at all Army echelons from BCT to combatant command. Chapter 1 describes how CA forces form a CMOC to support unified land operations and the decisive action necessary to successfully achieve unity of effort. Stability as one component of decisive action is specifically emphasized because stability is the culmination of offensive and defensive tasks. The CMOC has its greatest impact when supporting stability tasks. Chapter 2 explains how the CMOC is designed to support mission command by reducing the command post's (CP's) scope of responsibility and synchronizing, integrating, and/or coordinating with governmental and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), as well as indigenous populations and institutions (IPI). The CMOC helps develop the commander's situational understanding by integrating civil information with the joint information preparation of the environment. Chapter 3 depicts how the CMOC executes the operations process as it pertains to achieving unified action with the civil component. Chapter 4 explains the civil information functions of the CMOC that enhance the commander's common operational picture (COP). Chapter 5 explains the support relationships that exist from BCT to theater Army, as well as with joint forces. Chapter 6 explains the table of organization and equipment composition of the CMOC found in the CA company through the CACOM. Chapter 7 illustrates conceptually how the CMOC operates by protecting itself, achieving internal mobility, and communicating with its supported HQ and unified action partners.