text: Chapter 8
  • Host-nation or local government agencies.
  • Intergovernmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, indigenous populations and
  institutions, regional organizations, and the private sector (as appropriate).
  CIVIL MILITARY LIAISON
  8-19. Civil affairs units have designated civil-liaison teams organized in their unit structures at the battalion,
  brigade, and civil affairs command levels. These civil-liaison teams are established to conduct liaison
  functions for the division through joint force command level with interagency, intergovernmental, and host-
  nation entities.
  CIVIL-MILITARY TEAMING
  8-20. Civil-military teams are temporary organizations of civilian and military personnel which are task-
  oriented to provide an optimal mix of capabilities and expertise to accomplish specific planning or assessment
  tasks or to conduct synchronized or integrated activities at the strategic, operational, or tactical level. A civil-
  military team helps stabilize an AO in a province, district, state, or locality through its combined diplomatic,
  informational, military, and economic development and enforcement of the rule of law. The team provides
  the joint force commander with a means to understand the benefits of competencies that are normally external
  to the military. The team helps integrate the knowledge, expertise, and unique capabilities of U.S.
  Government departments and agencies with multinational military forces and civilian elements of
  multinational partners. Civil-military teams help the joint force commander understand the unique roles,
  responsibilities, parallel relationships, and objectives of other international and nongovernmental actors and
  organizations that may be present in an operational environment, but over whom neither the joint force
  commander nor the chief of mission exercises authority.
  8-21. Civil-military teaming provides the multinational command with a means to achieve horizontal
  integration while preparing, planning, executing, and assessing operations. A civil-military team combines
  diplomatic, informational, military, and economic capabilities to enhance the legitimacy and the effectiveness
  of the host-nation government. A civil-military team can focus on combined military and civil efforts to
  diminish the means and motivations of conflict while developing local institutions so they can take the lead
  role in national governance of providing basic services. (Refer to JP 3-57 for more information on CMO.)
  TRANSITIONAL MILITARY AUTHORITY
  8-22. Transitional military authority is a temporary military government exercising the functions of civil
  administration in the absence of a legitimate civil authority (FM 3-07). When asserting transitional military
  authority, the military is the lead agency and conducts stability operations to ensure the continuity of
  governance functions, specifically civil security and civil control. The multinational force commander is the
  de facto military governor. The military government may draw assistance from experienced civilian agencies
  and organizations. These agencies and organizations have the expertise to establish a system of government
  that fosters the gradual transition to an interim or indigenous authority. Transitional military authority is an
  interim solution. It continues only until the indigenous institutions and infrastructures can resume their
  functions and responsibilities. Sometimes, however, sufficient civilian expertise is not present, or conditions
  of an operational environment do not support introducing such civilian expertise. Military forces may then
  be required to lead until they stabilize the security situation and can safely transition responsibility for the
  stability sectors to civil authority.
  8-23. The occupying force maintains an orderly administration and transfers authority to an interim authority,
  indigenous authority, or other civilian authority. Transfer of authority does not necessitate military
  withdrawal. Transferring authority to an interim authority may require support to civil administration.
  Transition occurs within its capabilities and is subject to the principle of military necessity arising from any
  ongoing combat or security operations. The multinational force commander analyzes military activities likely
  to increase tensions and those likely to facilitate and accelerate a return to civil administration or government
  subject to the requirements of the military situation. The commander’s analysis is important in multi-ethnic
  or multicultural environments where one or more of the parties to a conflict view the COA as partisan.