text: Chapter 1
  interorganizational entities, NGOs, and other government agencies to collect and process information that is
  needed for commanders and staffs to plan successful missions. Commanders and staffs evaluate civil
  information for operational relevance to inform feasible courses of action. This civil information analysis
  (and subsequent evaluation) is utilized throughout the core competencies to allow CA forces to achieve their
  role of engaging and leveraging the civil component of the OE while enhancing, enabling, or providing
  governance.
  ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN CIVIL-MILITARY OPERATIONS CENTERS
  1-31. CA units, from the company through the Civil Affairs Command (CACOM), establish CMOCs, as
  required, to serve as a mechanism for integrating, coordinating, and synchronizing the efforts of U.S. forces
  with unified action partners and IPI. A CMOC is task-organized with CA and other enabling assets (such as
  military intelligence, engineer, military police, medical, and transportation assets) to meet specific mission
  tasks assigned to the CA element.
  1-32. Commanders establish a CMOC to provide continuous and seamless integration, coordination, and
  synchronization between military forces and unified action partners with nonmilitary and civilian entities
  according to the commander’s operations plan. CA forces conduct CMI to ensure that the integration,
  coordination, and synchronization of forces is conducted within the scope of the operational plan of the
  commander. CMI is different from CNDE. CMI, which is effected by the CMOC, is focused on ensuring all
  entities in the AO are informed and understand the commander’s intent and the common operational picture.
  CNDE, however, is focused on the development of civil networks to support and provide capabilities or
  resources that enable the mission and desired end state of the commander.
  1-33. The CMOC—in coordination with the S-9, G-9, and J-9 by echelon—is designed to share information,
  identify and distribute resources, and assist in the execution of CAO and CMO. This mission is primarily
  nested under the core competency of CMI, but is integral in TG, through enabling CA forces to fulfill their
  role of engaging and leveraging the civil component of the OE while enhancing, enabling, or providing
  governance.
  Note: Chapter 2 provides more information on establishing a CMOC.
  PROVIDE SUPPORT TO CIVIL ADMINISTRATION
  1-34. Support to civil administration is assistance given by United States armed forces to stabilize or
  enhance the operations of the governing body of a foreign country by assisting an established or interim
  government. Through the execution of SCA, CA forces assist an established government or interim civilian
  authority to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, or recover from crisis; or support a reconstructed government
  in the aftermath of war. SCA supports the U.S. diplomatic, informational, military, and economic instruments
  of national power abroad and will often occur in coordination with DOS to implement the U.S. stabilization
  strategy. CA forces execute SCA to provide assistance to a governing body or civil structure of a foreign
  country, according to international agreements, as part of disaster response or following armed conflict. This
  fulfills their requirements for enhancing, enabling, or providing governance.
  Note: See Chapter 2 for more details on SCA.
  ESTABLISH AND CONDUCT TRANSITIONAL MILITARY AUTHORITY
  1-35. 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). Under extreme circumstances (in
  which the host-nation government has failed completely, or an enemy regime has been deposed) the
  intervening authority has a legal and moral responsibility to install a transitional authority on behalf of the
  population. When military forces invade and occupy enemy territory, those forces may establish a transitional
  military authority and take the lead in the stability sectors.