About the Center

Civil-military operations are defined as the activities of a commander that establish, maintain, influence, or exploit relations between military forces, governmental and nongovernmental civilian organizations and authorities, and the civilian populace in a friendly, neutral, or hostile operation area in order to facilitate military operations, to consolidate and achieve operational US objectives.

The mission of CMO, is to develop all West Point leaders so that they are prepared to employ an understanding of Civil-Military Operations (CMO) within the framework of the broad spectrum of challenges they will face in military service; to support transformational changes to professional military education across the Department of Defense and partner organizations, and to establish West Point as the wellspring of professional military education in the realm of CMO.

The Center accomplishes its missions by connecting our cadets to the Civil-Military Operations environment through our Four Pillars.  Each domain provides a wealth of learning that accompanies their own cadet transformations from entering civilians, to military students, to Civil-Military Practitioners as they embark on a path to leadership in support of the US Army.