Join us on Friday and Saturday, 14-15 November at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, CA 

The Symposium enables the CA Corps to network and discuss force development among practitioners and partners as well as institutional and policy leaders. It also provides a chance to recognize outstanding Corps members and build esprit de corps.

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Click here to download the agenda.

 

Friday the 14th will feature four workshops. The day ends with a no-host social and the (members only) 78th Civil Affairs Association Board meeting.

 

The plenary session on Saturday the 15th starts with presentation and discussion of the workshop findings and recommendations by the workshop facilitators. Confirmed speakers that day include Major General Jason C. Slider, 37th Commanding General of the U.S. Army JFK Special Warfare Center and School, U.S. Army Special Operations Center of Excellence, Major General Andrée G. Carter, Commanding General, U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne), and USACAPOC(A) Command Sergeant Major George H. Conklin.

 

The Symposium ends that afternoon with the presentation of the five papers selected for publication in Vol. 12 of the Civil Affairs Issue Papers. Authors will be competing for cash prizes. Click on the following links for one-page summaries of each of the five papers:

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• Seizing the Initiative: The Case for Civil Affairs-Enabled Unity of Command in U.S. Stabilization Efforts by Mr. Ryan McCannell

• Organizing for Large-Scale Combat Operations: Consolidation of Civil Affairs Forces at the Division by Major Shawn M. Blaydes, Major J. Mike Teeter, & Mr. Walter Ellison II

• Should the United States Adopt a CIMIC Model of Civil Affairs for Homeland Defense? by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Boudreau, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Aniton, and Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Peter Schäfer

• The Civil Affairs Redefined Image (CARI) Model and Artificial Intelligence by Colonel Marco A. Bongioanni

• ​Redefining Civil Affairs: A Call for Modernization by Major John E. McElligott, Sergeant Major Robert J. Bruce, and Major Chris G. Antonov

 

Click here to pay for registration for the Symposium. For lodging and local travel recommendations, go to the Lodging and Local Information page on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum website. Military and AARP discounts are available.

 

The Association will not live-cast the Symposium. Instead, it will post it in segments on the Eunomia Journal YouTube channel after the event.