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Keys to survival and success for Area Command?
Flexibility
Intelligence
Mobility
OPSEC
The three types of narratives
Diagnostic frame
Prognostic frame
Motivational frame
Diagnostic frame?
Contains a description of the problem and identification of the victims
Prognostic frame
Articulates a proposed solution to the problem, possibly including a plan of attack and a strategy for carrying out the plan
Motivational frame
Provides a rationale for engaging in collective action and involves the dev of an appropriate vocab to mobilize individuals
Area Complex
A clandestine dispersed network of facilities to support resistance activities in a given area designed to achieve security, control, dispersion and flexibility
Narratives
They craft or support a believable story and they couple the story with actionable plans for those who encounter it
Pilot team
Vanguard element
Feasibility assessment
IDAD
Internal defense and development
Full range of measures taken by a nation to promote its growth and protect itself from subversion, lawlessness and insurgency
IDAD functions
Balanced development
Security
Neutralization of threat
Mobilization
Maos protracted popular war strategy
Strategic defense= latent & incipient
Strategic stalemate= Guerilla warfare
Strategic offense= War of movement
Components of resistance
Underground
Auxiliary
Guerilla force
Public component
STR activities (efforts)
Provide material and non material assisstance
Enable political activities
Conduct military and paramilitary ops
Shape the info environment
Combatant commands
Africom Centcom Eucom Northcom Southcom Pacom Spacecom Socom Transcom Cbercom Stratcom
UW core activities
Personnel recovery Intel ops Subversion Sabotage Preparation of the environment Guerilla warfare
Dynamics of an insurgency
Leadership Ideology Environment and geography Phasing and timing Internal support External support Objectives Organization and operational patterns
Where does SOF operate in MDO framework?
Operational deep fires area
UW
Activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow a government or occupying power by operating through or with an underground, auxiliary and guerilla force in a denied area
Activities of IW
FID UW Coin CT Stability ops
Types of resistance
Localized
Infiltrative
Ideational
Phases of UW
Preparation Initial contact Infiltration Organization Buildup Employment Transition
Two types of doctrine
Capstone-one of a 2 tiered system, Capstone joint doctrine links directly to Army keystone doctrine and incorporates NSS and NMS
Keystone-FMs (3-18 is keystone manual for SF doctrine)
Principles of security in denied area GW
Flexibility
Dispersion
Mobility
OPSEC
Tenents of Multi Domain Ops
Calibrrated Force posture
Multidomain formations
Convergance
Components of the solution
Compete Penetrate Disentegrate Exploit Re-compete
Three types of UW support
Direct support(can include advisors in resistance controlled ares) Indirect support(logistical aide and training) combat support(combines direct and indirect support with combat ops)
ARSOF activities
Foreign Humanitarian Assisstance HR CIvil military operations MISO UW DA PE COIN CT SFA FID SR CP
FID indirect
We only provide training
JCET
Foreign mil sales
Security assistance
FID direct
US forces conducting operations in support of CIV population or military
Usually funded by title 10
FID combat
President must approve combat ops
Combat ops are temporary solution until HN can stabalize the situation and provide security to populace
