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What is Unified Action

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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

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Unified Land Operations

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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.

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7 Principles to Mission command

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Competence
Commanders intent
mission order
mutual trust 
shared understanding
disciplined initiative
risk acceptance
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What are the two core competencies of USASOC

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Special Warfare

Surgical Strike

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What are the SOF tenants

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Tempo
Preemptive
Disruption
Deception
Disciplined Initiative
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What is the cognitive Framework

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Right Partner
Right Location
Right Capability

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What is OPCON?

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Authority to perform those functions of command over subordinate forces (Operational Control):
Organizing
Employing
assigning
designate obj
giving authoritative direction
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What is TACON

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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

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3 main tasks within Decisive Action

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Offensive, Defensive, Stability

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What are three commonalities of between ULO and air land battle

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Seize, retain, exploit initiative

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what is “I3”

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integration, inter-operability, inter-dependency

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What is CoG

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The source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action, and will to act.
Critical Capabilities
Critical Requirements
Critical Vulnerabilities

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What is the RAFT model

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analytical tool that separates situation variables:
Relationships
Actors
Functions
Tensions
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What are tactics

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ordered placement and maneuver of units in relation to each other

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What are techniques

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general, detailed methods troops and commanders use to perform assigned missions

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What are procedures

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Standard and detailed courses of action on how to perform tasks

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What is irregular warfare

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a violent struggle between state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant populations

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Primary Functions of Internal Defense and Development (IDAD)

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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

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What is descriptive doctrine

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Most common, doctrine that can be adapted to the operational environment. Applied thought

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What is prescriptive doctrine

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Adhere to army ethics, law of armed conflict, or UCMJ

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What is the point of narratives?

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Believable story and enables a plan of action

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What does FID and IDAD protect against

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Internal threats: subversion, lawlessness, and insurgency

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What is SFA

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unified action to generate, employ, and sustain local, host nation or regional security forces of a legitimate authority

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What are the dynamics of an insurgency

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Leadership
ideology
Objectives
Environment and geography
External Support
Phasing and timing 
Organizational and operational patterns
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UW Core activities

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Preparation of the environment
Subversion
Sabotage
NAR (non-conventional assisted recovery)
Guerrilla warfare
intelligence operations
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What are the Feasibility Assessment Criteria

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Feasibility, adequacy, appropriateness

27
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What are the characteristics of an irregular force

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Willingness to cooperate with the US
Capable resistance leader
compatible objectives and ideology

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What is the physical and human conditions of the environment:

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a weakened or unconsolidated regime, government or occupying power
Will of the population, indigenous force
Favorable terrain/environment for insurgents

29
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How do you employ Special warfare

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FID, UW

30
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UW Phases

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Preparation
Initial Contact
Infiltration
Organization
Build up
Employment
Transition
31
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What is Mao’s protracted popular war

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Strategic Defensive (latent incipient), Strategic stalemate (guerrilla warfare), Strategic counteroffensive (war of movement)

32
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Examples of Indirect support to FID

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Security Assistance: Foreign military financing and sales, International military education and training, CT assistance, Exchange programs, multinational exercises

33
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Name the 3 COCOMs not regionally aligned

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TRANSCOM, SOCOM, STRATCOM

34
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What is an example of a tactic

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Small unit tactics, battle drils

35
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What is an example of Technique

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individual movement technique

36
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What is an example of a procedure

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TLP, 9 line medevac, MDMP

37
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Examples of direct FID

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actual operations to support the civil populace; evaluation, training, limited info exchange

38
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What must happen to conduct combat support to FID

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POTUS order

39
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UW indirect support

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limited war scenarios, with and through coalition or third country

40
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UW direct support

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general war scenarios, wider scope of log support, training and advisory assistance, can include advisers in sanctuaries

41
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UW combat support

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POTUS order, all activities of indirect and direct support and combat operations

42
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Diagnostic frame

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Description of the problem, id victims

43
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Prognostic narrative frame

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Propose a solution to a problem and plan of action/attack to carry out the solution

44
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motivational narrative framework

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Provide a rationale for engaging in collective action, uses appropriate vocabulary to mobilize people

45
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Define IDAD

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Full range of measures taken by a nation to promote growth and protect itself.

46
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PE tasks

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OPE
AFO
intelligence operations

47
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What are the endstates of UW

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Coerce
Disrupt
Overthrow

48
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What is the endstate of PE

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Fully developed situational awareness of an environment including human and physical infrastructure in support of future SOF operations and activities.

49
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Differences between FID and SFA?

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FID is focused on internal security SFA is focused on external/regional security

50
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What ULO executed through

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Decisive action

Through- Offensive, defensive, stability, dsca

51
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ULO is guided by

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Mission command

52
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What is decisive action

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The continuous, simultaneous combinations of offensive defensive and stability or defense support of civil authorities tasks

53
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What is the difference between OPCON and TACON

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In TACON you cannot retask or reorganize

54
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Operational approach process

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Current situation- described by current conditions
Operational approach- Conceptualize an OA to attain endstate-described
Endstate-described by future desired conditions

55
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Define operational approach

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Cognitive approach by commanders and staff, supported by their skill, and knowledge to serve strategies, campaigns, and operations

56
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Difference between b/t surgical strike and special warfare

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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

57
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What are defense branches responsible for

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To organize train equip forces

58
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What is the national security organization

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President led group of executive departments

59
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Who makes up national command authority

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Ultimate source of lawful military orders

60
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Who makes up the national security council

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Vice president, DOS, DOD, DHS, DOJ

61
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What does the NSC do

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Advises the president in integration of domestic and foreign military policies as they relate to national security

62
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Does the JCS have command authority

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No

63
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What are subordinate unfired commands

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Established by commanders of unified commands when authorized by secdef

64
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Who does the sole belong to

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Jfac

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