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  Operation DESERT STORM – Kuwait
  Strategic planners of Operation DESERT STORM initially focused exclusively on the
  requirements for combat operations, intending to plan the post-conflict phase when
  combat operations were over. The timeline for post-conflict planning was sped up when,
  two months after the Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait on 2 August 1990, the
  Kuwaiti government-in-exile requested assistance from the U.S. Department of State
  (DoS) to establish a reconstruction planning structure. Following a briefing on U.S. Army
  Civil Affairs capabilities by a member of the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, the Kuwaiti
  contingent petitioned President Bush for CA support to help restore their country. By
  December 1, 1990, members of the 352d CA Command and the 354th CA Brigade—
  units mission-focused on the CENTCOM area of operations—mobilized at the U.S. Army
  Reserve Center in Riverdale Park, MD, to execute this mission. The Kuwait Task Force
  (KTF), as it was called, was comprised of 57 specially selected officers representing 20
  distinct roles of governance organized under the areas of government, economics and
  commerce, public facilities, and special functions. Among these veterans of the 1989
  Panama restoration effort were highly qualified CA Soldiers whose professional skills
  matched perceived shortfalls, including the Director of USAID’s Office of Foreign
  Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and a senior official of the Justice Department.
  Working with representatives of 27 different U.S. government agencies and their Kuwaiti
  counterparts, the KTF developed plans for executing due process of law regarding
  suspected Iraqi sympathizers, addressing possible sabotage done by the Iraqis,
  rebuilding electrical grids, dealing with potential oil fires, furnishing needed food and
  medicine, and other issues that were codified in Annex G, Civilian Action Plan, which
  was designed to become part of the USCENTCOM operational plan. The KTF also
  identified reliable contractors, developed workable procedures, and focused on the
  sequencing of post-conflict actions for Kuwaiti reconstruction. Upon its arrival in Saudi
  Arabia in early February 1991, the KTF was assigned to the Combined Civil Affairs Task
  Force (CCATF) under its parent unit, the 352d CA Command, which, in turn, was
  assigned to Task Force Freedom, a composite service support unit commanded by the
  Deputy Commanding General of Army Central (ARCENT). Within the mission structure
  of Task Force Freedom, the KTF was instrumental in restoring 50 percent of the
  telecommunications and transportation systems in Kuwait and repairing 30 percent of
  the devastated electrical grid within one month after the end of combat operations. Not
  one Kuwaiti died from thirst, starvation, or lack of medical attention after the liberation
  and there were virtually no acts of retribution or vigilantism directed against suspected
  collaborators. By the time the KTF departed, the Kuwaiti medical system was operating
  at 98 percent of its pre-war capacity, the international airport was re-opened, and the
  police force was fully operational. All major roads and one port were opened while two
  other ports were being swept of mines. Although the government of Kuwait requested
  that the KTF remain until December 1991, it was redeployed with is parent unit, the
  352d CA Command, on May 10th of that year
  The Kuwait Task Force: Postconflict Planning and Interagency Coordination,
  Center for Complex Operations, 2010
  JOINT OPERATIONS
  5-6. Joint operations are military actions conducted by joint forces and those Service forces employed in
  specified command relationships with each other, which of themselves, do not establish joint forces (JP 3-0).
  A joint force is a force composed of elements, assigned or attached, of two or more Military Departments
  operating under a single joint force commander (JP 3-0). Almost all military actions interact with the civilian
  population or affect the civilian population, and it is important to ensure proper civil-military interactions
  for all operations. U.S. Army CA constitutes the largest proportion of CA forces among the separate