text: Chapter 1
  AUTHORITIES
  1-2. U.S. Army CA forces provide the only CAO capability to the Army and joint force. The following
  policy directives establish the basis for the capabilities required of CA forces.
  DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DIRECTIVE 5100.01
  1-3. DODD 5100.01 provides authority and guidance to the U.S. Army to “develop concepts, doctrine,
  tactics, techniques, and procedures, and organize, train, equip, and provide forces with expeditionary and
  campaign qualities.” DODD 5100.01 also specifically states the following requirements for the Army:
  * Organize, train, and equip forces to conduct support to civil authorities in the U.S. and abroad,
  to include support for disaster relief, consequence management, mass migration, disease
  eradication, law enforcement, counter-narcotics, critical infrastructure protection, and response to
  terrorist attacks. The Army does this in coordination with the other military Services, combatant
  commands, the National Guard, and United States government (USG) departments and agencies.
  * Conduct CAO.
  * Occupy territories abroad and provide for the initial establishment of a military government
  pending transfer of this responsibility to other authority.
  1-4. DODD 5100.01 specifies that the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)—in
  coordination with the military Service chiefs—organize, train, equip, and provide special operations forces
  (SOF), doctrine, procedures, and equipment for CAO.
  DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DIRECTIVE 2000.13
  1-5. DODD 2000.13 states that CAO includes DOD actions that—
  * Coordinate military activities with other USG departments and agencies, civilian agencies of other
  governments, host-nation military or paramilitary elements, and nongovernmental organizations
  (NGOs).
  * Support stability operations (including activities that establish civil security), provide support to
  governance, provide essential services, support economic development and infrastructure, and
  establish civil control for civilian populations in occupied or liberated areas until such control can
  be returned to civilian or non-U.S. military authority.
  * Provide assistance outside the range of military operations, when directed, to meet the life-
  sustaining needs of the civilian population.
  * Provide expertise in civilian sector functions that normally are the responsibility of civilian
  authorities. That expertise is applied to implement DOD policies to advise or assist in
  rehabilitating or restoring civilian sector functions.
  * Establish and conduct military government until civilian authority or government can be restored.
  Note: DODD 2000.13 provides additional information on the DOD-directed requirements.
  TITLE 10, UNITED STATES CODE
  1-6. Title 10, United States Code (10 USC) directs Army forces to conduct prompt and sustained land
  combat, combined with the Army’s operating concept, and unified land operations requirements.
  Land operations, particularly large-scale combat operations, focus on destroying or dislocating enemy forces
  or securing key land objectives that reduce the enemy’s ability to conduct operations. Five characteristics
  distinguish land operations—
  * Scope.
  * Duration.
  * Terrain.
  * Permanence.
  * Civilian presence.