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Chapter 2
� Evaluating enemy, adversary and third-party information efforts as well as monitoring and
assessing the effectiveness of friendly inform and influence activities on target groups.
� Nominating information requirements and providing input to the collection plan to better
visualize and assess the information environment.
ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF, G-8, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
2-70. The ACOS, G-8 is singularly responsible for all financial management (resource management and
finance operations) within theater. As the principal financial management advisor to the commander, this
officer directs, prioritizes, and supervises the operations and functions of the G-8 staff sections assigned to
the G-8 and the contingency command post. In coordination with the financial management center and
through the theater sustainment command, the G-8 establishes and implements command finance
operations policy. The G-8 is responsible for those operational financial management tasks supporting the
theater. This officer advises the theater commander on laws and financial management regulations
governing obligations, expenditures, and limitations on the use of public funds. The G-8 coordinates
financial management policies and practices with the expeditionary contracting command to ensure
guidance is executed in accordance with Department of the Army (DA) mandates. (FM 1-06 discusses the
G-8 responsibilities in detail.)
2-71. The financial management center is a modular and tailorable operational financial management unit.
Its mission is inextricably linked to the theater army G-8, but it is assigned to a theater sustainment
command. The financial management center supports the Army Service component command, theater
sustainment command, and the expeditionary sustainment command by providing cash management,
internal controls, accounting, automation, and technical guidance for financial management companies and
financial management detachments. To provide adequate theater and national-provider responsiveness and
support, the financial management center maintains visibility of all financial management operations and
placement of all operational and tactical financial management units in theater. The financial management
center provides technical coordination of all theater finance operations and collected advice to the theater
army G-8 and the theater sustainment command commander on all aspects of theater finance operations.
ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF, G-9 (S-9), CIVIL AFFAIRS OPERATIONS
2-72. The ACOS, G-9 (S-9) is responsible for all matters concerning civil affairs. The G-9 (S-9)
establishes the civil-military operations center, evaluates civil considerations during mission analysis, and
prepares the groundwork for transitioning the AO from military to civilian control. The G-9 (S-9) advises
the commander on the military’s effect on civilians in the AO, relative to the complex relationship of these
people with the terrain and institutions over time. The G-9 (S-9) is responsible for enhancing the
relationship between Army forces and the civil authorities and people in the AO. The G-9 (S-9) is required
at all echelons from battalion through corps but authorized only at division and corps. Once deployed, units
below division level may be authorized an S-9. The G-9 (S-9) prepares Annex K (Civil Affairs Operations)
to the operation order or operation plan. (Refer to FM 3-05.40, FM 3-05.401, and FM 7-15 for more
detailed information on the duties and responsibilities of the G-9 [S-9].) G-9 (S-9) responsibilities include,
but are not limited to—
� Advising the commander on legal and moral obligations incurred from the long- and short-term
effects (economic, environmental, and health) of military operations on civilian populations.
� Operating a civil-military operations center to maintain liaison with other U.S. government
agencies, host-nation civil and military authorities, and nongovernmental and international
organizations in the AO.
� Coordinating with the chief of fires or fire support officer on protected targets.
� Planning community relations programs to gain and maintain public understanding and
goodwill, and to support military operations.
� Providing the G-2 (S-2) information gained from civilians in the AO.
� Coordinating with the surgeon on the military use of civilian medical facilities, materials, and
supplies.
� Coordinating with the G-7 officer to ensure disseminated information is not contradictory.
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