“When speaking to military officers nowadays about what the joint function contributes to military operations, it is not rare that they still equate CIMIC with ‘digging wells’ while forgetting that in a strictly doctrinal understanding, NATO CIMIC has always clearly aimed to contribute to achieving the military’s desired end-state.” – Christoph Harig, an Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Defence College, on why civil-military cooperation is deserving of well-wishers.