CIVIL MILITARY

OPERATIONS
MILITARY SCIENCE (MS-1)
EN1 Michael P Bertuldo PN
 LESSON OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of these lesson the student will:

 Define Civil Military Operations

 Enumerate the AFP programs to attain objectives

of CMO

 Differentiate the components of CMO programs

SCOPE OF PRESENTATION

I. Definition

II. Objectives of CMO

III. Components of CMO programs

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I. Definition:

Civil Military Operations (CMO) –

encompasses those economic, psycho-
political and psycho-social activities
undertaken by the AFP in coordination
with Civil Government Agencies (CGA),
Local Government Units (LGU) and Non-
Government Organizations (NGO) prior to
or during subsequent to combat
operations and/or natural or man-made
disasters and calamities.
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II. CMO Objectives
Are pursued through six (6) interrelated
AFP programs generally categorized into:

AFP Personnel-oriented Programs:

1. Military values education (MILVED)

2. Livelihood enhancement
(LIVELIHOOD)
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3. Community Relations (COMREL)

4. Civic Action (CIVAC)

5. Public Information (PUBLIC INFO)

 Enemy-oriented programs

6.Psychological Operations (PSYOPS)

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III. CMO components:

1. Military Values Education

MILVED – the dynamic

process of learning
internalizing, upholding and
practicing universal truths,
moral principles and time-
honored intrinsic military values
and ethics essential to the
pursuit of afp goals and
objectives.
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2. Military Livelihood
Enhancement Program

LIVELIHOOD - designed to
provide necessary assistance to
the soldier and his dependents
to embark on productive
ventures that enable him to
cope with harsh economic
realities while in the active
service and during retirement.
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3. Military Civic Action
Program

CIVAC – the use of afp

resources in predominantly
non-military projects and
activities useful to the people
and supportive of combat
operations in such fields as
socio-economic: health and
sanitation; agri-industrial;
education and the like.
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4. Community Relations Program

COMREL – the active participation

of AFP personnel, individual or
collectively as an AFP unit, in
people – oriented rallies like: anti-
drug abuse, anti-smut and other
campaign against immoral
activities. It also includes open-
houses, static displays of military
hardware, and use of camp
facilities/utilities for people oriented
projects.
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5. Public Information Program

PUBLIC INFO – is the

dissemination of military
information through all forms of
communication media to include
inter-personal, face-to-face
communication to the internal
audience and more specifically to
the public-at-large with the view of
informing them about what the afp
has done, is doing and plans to do
to bring about peace and security.
END OF LECTURE

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