Panel Discussion: Shaping the Future of Civil
Affairs – Past as Prologue
John C. Church, Jr.
Moderator: Colonel John C. Church, Jr., U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Director Civil Military Integration
Team, Headquarters U. S. Marine Corps, Assistant
Professor, Immaculata University
• Haiti – Brigadier General Bruce B. Bingham,
U.S. Army Civil Affairs (ret.), Director, Civil
Affairs Association
• Bosnia/Herzegovina – Major General Thomas
J. Matthews, U.S. Army Civil Affairs (ret.)
• Kosovo – Colonel Michael Hess, U.S. Army
Civil Affairs (ret.), Director, Civil Affairs Association
The first panel of the Civil Affairs Symposium was
designed to review Civil Affairs efforts in Haiti, Bosnia/Herzegovina and Kosovo from those whose efforts were instrumental to those missions.
The first question put to Brigadier General Bingham who, in 1994, became the Civil Affairs Advisor
to the Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command
for the Haitian intervention and subsequently led the
Ministerial Advisory Team in Haiti, had to do with
Civil Affairs planning and its impact upon the success of Civil Affairs challenges across the spectrum of
operations. Specifically, the question resulted from an
analysis of the 1995 article entitled “Interagency and
Political-Military Dimensions of Peace Operations:
Haiti – A Case Study,” written by Dr. Margaret Daly
Hayes and RADM Gary F. Wheatley, USN (ret.).
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