Team Leader / Writer / Lead Editor
Dennis J. Cahill, Sr.
“Everything I know about Civil Affairs, I learned in Somalia.”
Colonel (Ret.) Dennis J. Cahill, Sr., retired from active duty in 2011 after serving 27 years in the U.S. Army. He is a 2014 Distinguished Member of the Regiment (DMOR) for the Civil Affairs Corps, a past Honorary Colonel of the Regiment (HCOR) for the Civil Affairs Corps, and a 2005-2006 National Security Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University under the U.S. Army War College Fellowship Program. A 1984 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy commissioned as a Field Artillery officer, he began his uniformed career in civil affairs in 1992, starting as a Civil Affairs Direct Support Team Leader with C Company, 96th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne) and ending as the G-3/5/7 of U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne) and the Development Line of Operation Chief for CJTF-82/Regional Command-East in Afghanistan. His major civil affairs deployments include Operation Restore Hope in Somalia in 1993, Operation Iraqi Freedom Study Group in 2003, and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2009-2010. He is the author of FM 3-05.401/MCRP 3-33.1A, Civil Affairs Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, published in 2003, and has written extensively on civil affairs topics in numerous publications. He is a Civil Affairs Association (CAA) Director who serves as copy editor of the annual publication of Civil Affairs issue papers and conference reports on the Publications Committee and as Chairman of the Legacy Committee.
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