text: Civil Affairs Operations
  2-64. The purpose of CR is to—
  * Verify or refute civil information.
  * Assess the OE.
  * Locate, identify, survey, and observe areas, structures, capabilities, organizations, people, and
  events (ASCOPE).
  * Detect and monitor changes in the civil component.
  2-65. CR and CE enable the synchronization of the CA collection efforts with the commander’s critical
  information requirements and specific requests for information through the operations process. The outcomes
  from CR and CE add to the understanding of civil considerations and ultimately become inputs to the
  common operational picture of the commander.
  2-66. CR and CE are also conducted systematically over time to observe and assess certain civil aspects of
  the environment through routine engagement, patterned civil observance, utilizing active and passive sensors,
  virtual sensors, and other means to support assessments of effects, measures of performance, and measures
  of effectiveness.
  2-67. Civil engagement is a targeted, planned, and coordinated meeting with known or potential
  contacts in a civil network that is designed to develop or maintain relationships and to share or collect
  information. There may be times when CEs are ad hoc or spontaneous—as with chance meetings with new
  members of a potential or existing network—but these meetings are also conducted according to a planned
  and rehearsed format designed to build relationships; enable partners and increase stability; collect, confirm,
  or deny information; foster legitimacy; and promote cooperation and unity of effort.
  2-68. CA forces may conduct CE in conjunction with maneuver unit patrols, hold unified action partner
  meetings with local leaders, or conduct IO unit polls and surveys. All CEs can be conducted physically, or
  virtually if the conditions of the OE will not allow for a physical presence. CE is critical to fully understanding
  the key leaders and their desires, interactions, and intentions in the ever-changing conditions of the OE.
  CE is necessary to achieve accurate nodal analysis and identification of civil networks that have the greatest
  capabilities and resources to support the commander’s operational plan. It also preserves combat power by
  enabling military forces to tap into civilian resources that otherwise go unnoticed or unutilized. Through
  targeted CE, civil networks could be influenced to mobilize civilian resources to support U.S. military
  objectives.
  2-69. The inputs to this step include constructing or updating the civil information collection plan based on—
  * Planned and targeted activities for engagements and information reporting requirements, such
  as—
  CCIRs, which includes priority intelligence requirements and friendly force information
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  requirements.
  Named areas of interest.
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  Targeted areas of interest.
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  * CONOPS for CND, CR, and CE.
  * An assessment crosswalk of—
  Task.
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  Purpose.
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  Objectives.
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  Effects.
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  Measures of performance.
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  Measures of effectiveness.
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  2-70. These inputs include civil network information and possible answers to information requirements order
  to better understand and assess the OE, build partner capacity, enable unity of effort, enhance freedom of
  action, and/or disrupt threats. CA forces must integrate, collaborate, and synchronize with other information-
  related capabilities, unified action partners, host-nation entities, and sensitive activities in order to achieve
  the commander’s lines of effort, desired effects and enable unity of effort.