Category: General
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CATR Post #31 – What is the role of Civil Affairs in large-scale combat operations? (Part 4 – Fixing the Civil Affairs problems of North Africa.)
8-minute read Looking past North Africa. We noted in CATR #29 that President Roosevelt initially intended that civilian, not military, officials manage civil affairs in liberated and occupied countries in…
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CATR Post #30 – What is the role of Civil Affairs in large-scale combat operations? (Part 3 – Civil Affairs in North Africa)
8-minute read A little background. Operation Torch – the Anglo-American invasion of French North Africa in November 1942 – was the first ground operation conducted by Allied forces against the…
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CATR Post #29 – What is the role of Civil Affairs in large-scale combat operations? (Part 2 – Civil Affairs at the beginning of WWII)
5-minute read In CATR #28, we introduced the discussion of civil affairs (CA) in large-scale combat operations (LSCO) by providing examples from my observations in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) I;…
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CATR Post #28 – What is the role of Civil Affairs in large-scale combat operations? (Part 1)
7-minute read Observations of LSCO during OIF I. I have been grappling with this question for 25 years, since I began writing the first Army/Marine Corps Civil Affairs Tactics, Techniques,…
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CATR Post #27 – What is the role of Civil Affairs in irregular warfare?
12-minute read With contributions by LTC (Ret.) Albert Augustine and LTC Colin Blair. The question and the initial discussion. Back in mid-December 2025, on LinkedIn, the Civil Affairs Association (CAA)…
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CATR Post #26 – How do you maintain civil networks during and after a deployment?
10-minute read By Colonel (Ret.) Lars Skinner With contributions by Major General (Ret.) Hugh van Roosen, Colonel (Ret.) Dennis J. Cahill, Colonel (Ret.) Bradford Hughes, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Albert Augustine,…
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CATR Post #25 – Five 38G questions from a direct commission candidate.
15-minute read (not including the list of Fellowships and Professional Opportunities in question 4) By Colonel (Ret.) Brad Hughes Introductory Note from the Team Chief: In CATR #1, published on…
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CATR Post #24 – What was it like reclassifying from SF to CA?
6-minute read By Sergeant Major (Ret.) Chet Sechrest Introductory Note from the Team Chief: Last summer, SGM (Ret.) Chet Sechrest participated in the discussion that became CATR Post #9. He…
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CATR Post #23 – An NCO responds to CATR #22.
5-minute read By Sergeant First Class (Ret.) Karl Kumm Introductory Note from the CATR Team Leader: In CATR #22 and the Eunomia article, “Revisiting Civil Affairs Operations in Operation Restore…
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CATR Post #22 – What was the reception at your first Civil Affairs unit like? (Part 2)
7-minute read Reporting back to the 96th Civil Affairs Battalion (Airborne) (96th CA Bn (Abn)). The CA Course ended on 21 August 1992, a Friday. My orders required me to…