Comprehensive Exam Flashcards
What are the 19 steps to Mission Analysis?
1 Analyze the higher headquarters plan or order.
2 Perform initial IPB.
3 Determine specified, implied, and essential tasks.
4 Review available assets and identify resource shortfalls.
5 Determine constraints.
6 Identify critical facts and develop assumptions.
7 Begin composite risk management.
8 Develop initial CCIR and EEFI.
9 Develop initial reconnaissance and surveillance (R&S) synchronization tools.
10 Develop initial R&S plan.
11 Update plan for the use of available time.
12 Develop initial themes and messages.
13 Develop a proposed problem statement.
14 Develop a proposed mission statement.
15 Present the mission analysis briefing.
16 Develop and issue initial commander’s intent.
17 Develop and issue initial planning guidance.
18 Develop COA evaluation criteria.
19 Issue a WARNO
What are the 9 Principle Tasks of Special Forces?
Preparation of the Environment Unconventional Warfare Foreign Internal Defense Security Force Assistance Counter-Insurgency Counter Terrorism Special Reconnaissance Direct Action Counter-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
What are the roles of the 18A / 180A / 18Z / 18F during COA Development?
18A - Issue COA Dev guidance
180A - maintain timeline, organize products and briefings
18Z - manage task org, supervise efforts
18F - applying enemy SITTEMP against the COAs
Difference between COA screening and evaluation criteria?
Screening: Feasible Acceptable Suitable Distinguishable Complete
Evaluation: Surprise Survivable Simplicity Speed Redundant Flexible Logistically Sustainable
Define Special Reconnaissance
reconnaissance and surveillance actions conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments to collect or verify information of strategic or operational significance, employing military capabilities not normally found in conventional forces
What are the 5 DA mission criteria?
Is the mission appropriate for SF?
Does the mission support the GCC campaign plan?
Is the mission operationally feasible?
Are the required resources available to conduct the mission?
Does the expected outcome justify the risk?
What are ways to prepare for unexpected media engagements?
rehearsals build into training plan buy time and space to prepare yourself lead the conversation, establish guidlines know the PAO and PAO talking points
What are the 3 pillars of Preparation of the Environment?
Operational Preparation of the Environment - Develop human and physical infrastructure
Advanced Force Operations
Intelligence Operations
Describe the Spectrum of War in reference to Special Warfare and Surgical Strike? Align the 9 tasks within the spectrum
Special Warfare/Indigenous Approach
- UW
- FID
- SFA
- COIN
Surgical Strike/Precision Targeting
- SR
- DA
- CT
- CP
PE during entire spectrum
Define Unconventional Warfare
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 guerrilla force in a denied area.
What are the 7 phases of UW?
- Preparation
- Initial Contact
- Infiltration
- Organization
- Build Up
- Employment
- Transition
What are the 7 Dynamics of successful insurgencies?
- Leadership
- Ideology
- Objectives
- Environment/Geography
- External Support
- Phasing/Timing (Mao)
- Organizational/Operational Patterns
What are the insurgent support networks?
Logistics Transportation Medical Communication Information/Propaganda Intelligence/Counterintelligence Finance Recruitment
What are Mao’s 3 phases to an insurgency?
- Latent/Incipient
2 Guerrilla Warfare - War of Movement
Define Subversion
Subversion are actions directed at human beings and meant to undermine the sources of political power.
