Eunomia Journal
May 7, 20205 min
By Whitney Waldsmith
"...medical personnel can positively impact the Civil Affairs mission."
"Where CA operators see a whole-of-government approach, medical personnel see the physiology of systems that necessarily work in concert."
[i] AMEDD BOLC: Army Medical Department Basic Officer Leadership Course
[ii] Special Operations Forces
[iii] MEDCAP: Medical Civic Action Program, VETCAP: Veterinary Civic Action Program; engagements focused on direct patient care
[iv] Diagnostic scheme acronyms - VINDICATE: vascular, infection, neoplasm, drugs, inflammatory/idiopathic, congenital, autoimmune, trauma, endocrine/metabolic. DAMNIT: degenerative/developmental, autoimmune, metabolic/mechanical, nutritional/neoplastic, inflammatory/infectious/iatrogenic, trauma/toxin
[v] PMESII-PT: political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical environment, time (operational variables); ASCOPE: areas, structures, organizations, people, events (civil considerations).
[vi] D3A: decide, detect, deliver, and assess; this is the cyclic process by which targeting specialists determine if military actions have achieved their goals, and how those activities should be adjusted in the future
[vii] Civil Affairs Teams
[viii] MOEs: Measures of effectiveness; this is a targeting methodology used to assess whether the actions taken achieved their prescribed goals
[ix] UAPs: Unified Action Partners; depending on the operational context, this may be partner nation government, military, NGOs, other US military, or other relevant actors.
[x] These are currently the three primary Civil Affairs mission sets. CME: civil military engagement; UW: unconventional warfare; LSCO: large-scale combat operations
[xi] MTOE: modified table of equipment, prescribes the numbers and types of personnel assigned to a given unit
[xii] IC: intelligence community