ARSOF Flashcards
What is Unified Action
The synchronization, coordination, and integration of the activities of governmental and nongovernmental entities with military operations to achieve unity of effort (The big picture). Overall Joint operating concept
Unified Land Operations
The army’s part in Unified action. Simultaneous, offensive, defensive, and stability or defense support of civil authorities tasks to seize, retain, and exploit the initiative to shape the operational environment, prevent conflict, consolidate gains and win our nations wars as part of unified action.
7 Principles to Mission command
Competence Commanders intent mission order mutual trust shared understanding disciplined initiative risk acceptance
What are the two core competencies of USASOC
Special Warfare
Surgical Strike
What are the SOF tenants
Tempo Preemptive Disruption Deception Disciplined Initiative
What is the cognitive Framework
Right Partner
Right Location
Right Capability
What is OPCON?
Authority to perform those functions of command over subordinate forces (Operational Control): Organizing Employing assigning designate obj giving authoritative direction
What is TACON
Provides sufficient authority for controlling and directing the application of force or tactical use of combat support assets within the assigned mission or task. Tactical control
3 main tasks within Decisive Action
Offensive, Defensive, Stability
What are three commonalities of between ULO and air land battle
Seize, retain, exploit initiative
what is “I3”
integration, inter-operability, inter-dependency
What is CoG
The source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action, and will to act.
Critical Capabilities
Critical Requirements
Critical Vulnerabilities
What is the RAFT model
analytical tool that separates situation variables: Relationships Actors Functions Tensions
What are tactics
ordered placement and maneuver of units in relation to each other
What are techniques
general, detailed methods troops and commanders use to perform assigned missions
What are procedures
Standard and detailed courses of action on how to perform tasks
What is irregular warfare
a violent struggle between state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant populations
Primary Functions of Internal Defense and Development (IDAD)
Balanced Development: National goals through political, social, and economic aspects of a nation-state
Security: Protects the population from all threats
Neutralization: physically and pyschologically separates the threatening elements from the populace
Mobilization:responsive governance and material supports to the society
What is descriptive doctrine
Most common, doctrine that can be adapted to the operational environment. Applied thought
What is prescriptive doctrine
Adhere to army ethics, law of armed conflict, or UCMJ
What is the point of narratives?
Believable story and enables a plan of action
What does FID and IDAD protect against
Internal threats: subversion, lawlessness, and insurgency
What is SFA
unified action to generate, employ, and sustain local, host nation or regional security forces of a legitimate authority
What are the dynamics of an insurgency
Leadership ideology Objectives Environment and geography External Support Phasing and timing Organizational and operational patterns
UW Core activities
Preparation of the environment Subversion Sabotage NAR (non-conventional assisted recovery) Guerrilla warfare intelligence operations
What are the Feasibility Assessment Criteria
Feasibility, adequacy, appropriateness
What are the characteristics of an irregular force
Willingness to cooperate with the US
Capable resistance leader
compatible objectives and ideology
What is the physical and human conditions of the environment:
a weakened or unconsolidated regime, government or occupying power
Will of the population, indigenous force
Favorable terrain/environment for insurgents
How do you employ Special warfare
FID, UW
UW Phases
Preparation Initial Contact Infiltration Organization Build up Employment Transition
What is Mao’s protracted popular war
Strategic Defensive (latent incipient), Strategic stalemate (guerrilla warfare), Strategic counteroffensive (war of movement)
Examples of Indirect support to FID
Security Assistance: Foreign military financing and sales, International military education and training, CT assistance, Exchange programs, multinational exercises
Name the 3 COCOMs not regionally aligned
TRANSCOM, SOCOM, STRATCOM
What is an example of a tactic
Small unit tactics, battle drils
What is an example of Technique
individual movement technique
What is an example of a procedure
TLP, 9 line medevac, MDMP
Examples of direct FID
actual operations to support the civil populace; evaluation, training, limited info exchange
What must happen to conduct combat support to FID
POTUS order
UW indirect support
limited war scenarios, with and through coalition or third country
UW direct support
general war scenarios, wider scope of log support, training and advisory assistance, can include advisers in sanctuaries
UW combat support
POTUS order, all activities of indirect and direct support and combat operations
Diagnostic frame
Description of the problem, id victims
Prognostic narrative frame
Propose a solution to a problem and plan of action/attack to carry out the solution
motivational narrative framework
Provide a rationale for engaging in collective action, uses appropriate vocabulary to mobilize people
Define IDAD
Full range of measures taken by a nation to promote growth and protect itself.
PE tasks
OPE
AFO
intelligence operations
What are the endstates of UW
Coerce
Disrupt
Overthrow
What is the endstate of PE
Fully developed situational awareness of an environment including human and physical infrastructure in support of future SOF operations and activities.
Differences between FID and SFA?
FID is focused on internal security SFA is focused on external/regional security
What ULO executed through
Decisive action
Through- Offensive, defensive, stability, dsca
ULO is guided by
Mission command
What is decisive action
The continuous, simultaneous combinations of offensive defensive and stability or defense support of civil authorities tasks
What is the difference between OPCON and TACON
In TACON you cannot retask or reorganize
Operational approach process
Current situation- described by current conditions
Operational approach- Conceptualize an OA to attain endstate-described
Endstate-described by future desired conditions
Define operational approach
Cognitive approach by commanders and staff, supported by their skill, and knowledge to serve strategies, campaigns, and operations
Difference between b/t surgical strike and special warfare
Special warfare is conduct by special trained individuals working with and through indigenous forces
Surgical strike is execution of precise operations involving SOF to seize destroy capture
What are defense branches responsible for
To organize train equip forces
What is the national security organization
President led group of executive departments
Who makes up national command authority
Ultimate source of lawful military orders
Who makes up the national security council
Vice president, DOS, DOD, DHS, DOJ
What does the NSC do
Advises the president in integration of domestic and foreign military policies as they relate to national security
Does the JCS have command authority
No
What are subordinate unfired commands
Established by commanders of unified commands when authorized by secdef
Who does the sole belong to
Jfac
