text: Chapter 2
  * Civil network capabilities.
  * Information sharing architecture.
  * Government capacity.
  * Political and social structures.
  2-5. It is the role of the CA elements and CAO staff to identify and plan for the integration and protection of
  civil component capabilities within the commander’s plan. CA staff, at all echelons, analyze civil component
  capabilities from two distinct perspectives, the degree to which civil component capabilities can—
  * Sustain civilian security activities without the introduction of U.S. military or civilian resources.
  * Be leveraged to support U.S. military or civilian objectives.
  2-6. CA analysts continuously update the status of civil capabilities during operations as conditions change
  or as new threats to stability emerge. This analysis feeds into planning of military and civilian operations
  across the competition continuum.
  THREATS
  2-7. The civil threats found within an OE are primarily related to the threats to civil security. Civil security
  takes into consideration the factors of economic, food, health, environmental, personal, community, and
  political security. Threats within the civil component take many forms. These include, but are not limited to—
  * Persistent poverty, unemployment, and lack of opportunity.
  * Hunger and famine.
  * Deadly infectious diseases, unsafe food, and malnutrition.
  * Lack of access to basic health care and clean water.
  * Environmental degradation, resource depletion, and natural disasters.
  * Physical violence, crime, terrorism, domestic violence, and child labor.
  * Interethnic, religious, and other identity-based tensions.
  * Political repression and human rights abuses.
  * Criminal elements.
  * Destabilized or failing infrastructure.
  * Elements aimed at fomenting societal collapse.
  * Enemy special purpose forces.
  * Propaganda, deception, misinformation, and disinformation.
  * At-risk populations.
  * Other elements or conditions that could lead to a breakdown of society.
  2-8. Most threats target social structures within the civil component to destabilize the area. That destabilization
  can be used to take advantage of the population or to target U.S. and partner forces maneuvering through (and
  working within) the civil component.
  2-9. Identification and reduction of threats is key to operational success within the civil component. The
  existence of any of these threats to the civil population within an OE is an inherent threat to U.S. military and
  civilian organizations operating there. Some of these threats may be created or exploited by adversaries specifically
  to destabilize an area to promote threat objectives or hinder the achievement of U.S. or ally objectives.
  2-10. The key to defeating these threats is the promotion of local stabilization and governance capabilities and
  resources that are developed and leveraged from the CNDE processes. CA elements and staff, at all echelons,
  working with interorganizational partners, fully identify threats and potential threats before, during, and after
  military operations. CA commanders are responsible for continuous planning, coordination, and integration of civil
  and military resources to counter those threats across time and space in the competition continuum.
  VULNERABILITIES
  2-11. Civil vulnerabilities are those elements within a society that could be exploited by a threat actor or
  degraded by a natural event. In any given OE, there are specific, pertinent components that drive power