CA Roundtable 2022

The 2021 Civil Affairs Symposium Report revealed critical observations for building a global civil-military network to strengthen alliances and attract new partners, as the war in Ukraine is validating. Among them is how it helps gain and maintain the access and influence that defines positional advantage in strategic competition, providing a wide and continuous feedback loop to enable more effective unified action and superior political-military and civil-military decision-making. A more formal and deliberate global network of civil-military enterprises is long overdue. Whether for major combat operations, irregular warfare, gray zone encounters, or continuous competition with state and non-state actors, advantage falls to those that amass a superior learning network – institutionally as well as operationally.

CA’s greatest value-added, strategically and operationally, has always been in its ability to develop and leverage civil networks, resulting from persistent civil reconnaissance and civil engagement and captured in civil knowledge – by, with, and…