text: Chapter 1
  * Restore essential services.
  * Provide support to governance.
  * Support the economic and infrastructure development.
  * Conduct security cooperation.
  CIVIL AFFAIRS OPERATIONS FOCUS ON CONSOLIDATION OF GAINS WITHIN THE
  CIVIL COMPONENT
  1-41. CA plays a vital role in preparing, planning, and executing courses of action that must be integrated
  with the overall consolidation of gains plan.CA forces develop and engage supporting civil networks to
  increase local governance capability. This ensures a sustainable security environment, which allows for a
  transition of control to legitimate authorities.
  CIVIL AFFAIRS OPERATIONS EMPOWER LOCAL CIVIL NETWORKS TO INCREASE
  GOVERNANCE CAPACITY AND PRESERVE COMBAT POWER
  1-42. Utilizing civil networks, CA forces build capacity that supplements or replaces requirements with
  regard to civil security, cooperation, and services. This control reduces the burden on U.S. forces to provide
  for the needs of the population. Without this capacity, a hostile civilian population, or subset of it, can threaten
  the operations of friendly forces and undermine mission legitimacy. A supportive civilian population and
  accompanying civil networks provide resources, freedom of maneuver, and information that facilitate
  friendly operations.
  CIVIL AFFAIRS OPERATIONS ARE AN INFORMATION-RELATED CAPABILITY
  1-43. CAO involve direct interaction with IPI and unified action partners for the collection, collation, and
  dissemination of civil information. They are a capability employed in the information environment to create
  and/or assess effects, and shape operationally desirable conditions.
  1-44. CA forces enhance and enable information operations (IO) by identifying civil aspects of the
  information environment, assessing and evaluating civil indicators of IO effectiveness within the AO, and
  providing actionable options to the supported commander’s IO plan regarding themes and messages. CA
  forces complete these actions and provide support to IO through the conduct of CAO. CAO are an
  information-related capability.
  A COMPREHENSIVE, INTERRELATED KNOWLEDGEBASE IS AN INVALUABLE ASSET
  1-45. CA forces collect civil data for analysis, evaluation, and transformation into actionable civil knowledge
  within the operational area. This base of civil knowledge is available and leveraged for integration into all Army
  planning processes and warfighting functions. It is also critical for understanding civil component trends,
  predicting civil impacts on military missions, predicting military impacts on the IPI, and identifying threats
  within the civil component of the OE.
  REGIONAL AND CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING ARE ESSENTIAL TO SUCCESSFUL
  CIVIL AFFAIRS OPERATIONS
  1-46. CA forces rely on CE, relationships, and an understanding of the civil component to effectively plan and
  execute CAO. Regional and cultural competencies are critical skills for interacting with people of different
  cultures. Also essential to success are the knowledge and understanding of the interests, functions, capabilities,
  and vulnerabilities of the populations, institutions, and government apparatus that reside or operate in the region
  in which military forces operate.
  CIVIL AFFAIRS OPERATIONS ARE NESTED WITH UNIFIED ACTION
  1-47. Unified action requires the synchronization, coordination, and/or integration of the activities of
  governmental and non-governmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort. Each of the
  CA core competencies inherently supports these requirements by bringing military and civil capabilities