text: Chapter 8
  affairs forces develop and engage civil networks and ensure the appropriate control and continuity of
  government functions in occupied or liberated territory.
  8-6. CMI is a key tenet of CMO and interorganizational cooperation. CAO promote CMI into any
  headquarters and at echelons above brigade. Commanders consider CAO early in the planning and
  preparation of the operations process.
  8-7. The Army rules of allocation apply to all echelons. A civil affairs company is assigned to brigade combat
  teams, civil affairs battalion headquarters to divisions, civil affairs brigades to corps or joint task force. Lastly,
  civil affairs commands (known as CACOMs) are assigned to a theater army, land component command, or
  geographic combatant command.
  CIVIL AFFAIRS COMPETENCIES
  8-8. Civil affairs forces focus on the interests, functions, capabilities, and vulnerabilities of populations,
  institutions, government apparatus, and UAPs that reside or operate in and around an AO. The civil affairs
  branch has the following core competencies:
  • Transitional governance.
  • Civil network development and engagement (known as CNDE).
  • Civil knowledge integration (known as CKI).
  • CMI.
  TRANSITIONAL GOVERNANCE
  8-9. CAO focuses on winning the battle for moral authority and legitimacy. Legitimacy is promoted in the
  eyes of the world’s community of nations by inclusion of as many nations as possible into the mission. Some
  nations will not provide military forces, but they may provide civilian entities. Many UAPs must be integrated
  through CMI. The populace only perceives legitimacy as achieved within an AO. Civil security and civil
  control are performed as stability tasks. These tasks require the continuity of government functions and
  appropriate control throughout conflict to establish or maintain stability. Only through stability will the
  indigenous populace confer legitimacy. CMO plays a crucial role in achieving stability and legitimacy.
  CIVIL KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION
  8-10. Civil knowledge integration is the actions taken to analyze, evaluate, and organize collected civil
  information for operational relevance and informing the warfighting function (FM 3-57). The resulting civil
  knowledge is integrated with other knowledge about an operational environment to create shared
  understanding among commanders, UAPs, international organizations, and civilian partners. Civil affairs
  forces use civil knowledge integration primarily to inform, focus, and direct CAO and CMO at all echelons.
  8-11. In addition, civil knowledge integration enables the commander’s understanding of an operational
  environment and development of the COP. Commanders incorporate civil knowledge integration using the
  Army’s integrating processes: intelligence preparation of the battlefield, information collection, targeting,
  risk management, and KM. Civil affairs units also use this information as inputs to the civil network
  development and engagement process to refine information requirements and to shape branches, sequels, and
  other future missions.
  CIVIL NETWORK DEVELOPMENT AND ENGAGEMENT
  8-12. Civil network development and engagement is the activity by which the civil network capabilities and
  resources are engaged, evaluated, developed, and integrated into operations (FM 3-57). Developing and
  engaging civil networks provides commanders with a more complete understanding of an operational
  environment while providing access to use those networks to shape operational outcomes. A civil network is
  a collection of formal and informal groups, associations, military engagements, and organizations within an
  operational environment that interact with each other with varying degrees of frequency, trust, and
  collaboration (FM 3-57). Civil networks can be mobilized or self-motivated to bring collective action, social
  pressure, and political pressure around an area of common interest. Civil network development and
  engagement enables commanders to understand the civil component of an operational environment.