Civil Affairs Studies: Illustrative Cases from Military Occupations - Opnav 50e-10

Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (1944-06-10). Civil Affairs Studies: Illustrative Cases from Military Occupations - Opnav 50e-10 (Report). Washington, DC: Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department.

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Abstract: llustrative Cases from Military Occupations was a handbook published in 1944 by the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Department of the Navy.

Compiled by the Occupied Areas Section, the handbook provides brief anecdotes and lessons learned from historical incidents of military occupations. The intended audience was US Naval personnel engaged in Civil Affairs work. These brief "case studies" are organized around, and intended to support, basic practical themes for decision making during wartime and immediate post-war occupations. The pamphlet was designated Civil Affairs Studies, OPNAV 50E-10.

Several items in the text deal specifically with experiences of the German and Japanese administrators in Micronesia.