agement, Foreign Humanitarian Assistance, Nation
Assistance, Population Resource Control and Support
to Civil Administration. But it is only one step.
Second, Civil Affairs like all major strategic capabilities, requires appropriate authorization, organization, and resourcing.
As the third panel advised, CA should be seen “in
the context of wider policy trends of the recent era:
expanded engagement in civil dimension operations
and increased American reliance on civilian agencies
and contractors in stability operations. American military actions abroad from 1989 onward broadened to
include humanitarian intervention, not only to stabilize relationships between states, but also to protect
people within them. Global human security norms
emerged that expanded definitions of security and its
relationship to development. New national, international, non-governmental and even for-profit agencies
came forward to address the challenges of security
and development.”
Yet, Civil Affairs writ large has struggled to keep
up with even what the first panel identified as its major
observations from the 1990s – the increasing complexity and ambiguity of the CMO environment; the growing need to identify and specify &WV