What Should USSOCOM's Active Duty Civil Affairs Force Structure Look Like in the 21st Century?

<p>The demand for civil affairs specialist throughout U.S. military history has been documented in numerous government reports military reports congressional hearings and presidential directives. This research paper will examine published reports and directives and then link organizational and cultural changes that occurred within the services. Finally an examination of civil affairs training programs between services will be analyzed in order to determine whether the force is prepared for future joint operations in the 21st Century. This paper will answer the question whether or not civil affairs units from different services and training backgrounds can work in a joint interagency environment with a common lexicon of doctrinal terms base line training expectations and skills sets necessary to plan execute or supervise tactical operational and strategic civil military operation and activities in the 21st Century. Each service minus the Air Force has enhanced their CA capabilities in order to comply with NSPD 44 and DoD Dir. 3000.05 requirements. USSOCOM as the leading Command for Asymmetric and Irregular Warfare must be able to operate in a Joint-Interagency Environment consisting of Special Operations CA Forces USAR CA USN(R) CA and USMC(R) CA and other civilian agencies. The common linkage between these groups is Civil Information Management and Common Core CA training. Therefore USSOCOM is not prepared to plan and execute strategic civil military / civil military activities in a joint operating environment.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>