I wondered how effective Moqtada al-Sadr's call to arms would have been if the Americans had initiated a civic-action program in Sadr City.
If the United States does extend the military mission, the American Embassy has drawn up a plan to extend the military's civic action program to two small islands.
The general contended that in Vietnam the American forces' record of "achievements was remarkable: the mammoth logistical buildup, various tactical expedients and innovations, the advisory effort, civic action programs".
Despite the seemingly obvious participation in civic action programs by the AFP beyond its traditional role, the constitutional basis for democratic civilian oversight was generally observed in practice (Goldberg 1976).
Coast Guard personnel stationed in Vietnam were encouraged by their commands to donate off duty time to assist in various civic action programs supporting the Vietnamese people.
Derek outlines a type of system that he calls a "civic action brokering platform," systems that are more about brokering and coordinating action, beyond the use of speech.
He raised salaries across the board, promoted new officers to key positions, and disbursed large sums from Venezuela's extra oil earnings to the military's Plan Bolívar civic-action program.
Time reported that "Webber immediately expanded counterinsurgency training within Guatemala's 5,000-man 5,000-manught in U.S. jeeps, trucks communicarmyns equipment and helicopters to give the army more firepower and mobrought and breathed new line into the army's civic-action program".
U.S.A.I.D. was conceived during the Kennedy Administration as a civic-action bolster to the C.I.A.'s underground activities abroad, and in the intervening years some U.S.A.I.D. programs have kept one foot in the shadows.
A popular civic action and lobby group which organizes community action and encourages leadership.
This does not, however, necessarily exclude civic action meetings or programs that might be sponsored by a commercial concern or industrial association.
