This study examines whether the BCT is adequately trained to properly employ CA teams in the contemporary environment by examining past contingency operations, current Army doctrine, and CA doctrine. Additionally, this study obtains information...
African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI) is a U.S. State department program that began in July 1997. Initially the program focused on battalion size elements. After three years of developing this capacity at the battalion level the U.S. State...
Since the end of the Cold War, growing state and global instability, particularly in undergoverned regions of the world, has led to increasing requests from ambassadors and combatant commanders for civil affairs forces to conduct missions in...
About to join the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina - "the most deployed unit within special operations" - it came as little surprise to Major Ben Sunds that, following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, "their...
Counterinsurgency has been going on for hundreds of years, so why do we proceed to
underestimate our enemy, fail to train for the type of war we are face with until it happen
and not learn from our mistakes. We must secure the populace, defeat the...
Civil Affairs (CA) units support commanders by working with civil and military authorities in the commander's area of operations during peace and operations of war. CA units support the Afghan and Iraqi people in rehabilitating their societies...
The purpose of this article is to show how lessons learned from the NCO creed made me a more agile and adaptive NCO. In 2005, I transferred to the 404TH Civil Affairs Battalion (SO) as HHC's First Sergeant (1 SG). I knew I needed to accomplish our...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
In his second of four interviews, Major James Love, an infantryman converted to civil affairs, discusses his deployment as a civil affairs team leader in Echo Company, 96th Civil Affairs Battalion to the Kandahar and Chamkani areas of Afghanistan...
A forward observer attached to Combined Arms Team-A - a mobile reconnaissance unit part of Combined Arms Platoon, Weapons Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marines - Sergeant Jason McManus arrived in Kuwait in February 2003 and participated in Operation...
Commander Mike Varney, US Navy, received word that he would command a provincial reconstruction team (PRT) while assigned to the Chief of Naval Operations staff at the Pentagon. Notified in December 2005, Varney and several other officers would...