Doctrine Flashcards
What are the SF Principle Tasks
- Unconventional Warfare (UW)
- Foreign Internal Defense (FID)
- Security Force Assistance (SFA)
- Counterinsurgency (COIN)
- Direct Action (DA)
- Special Reconnaissance (SR)
- Counter Terrorism (CT)
- Counter Proliferation (CP) of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
- Information Operations (IO)
What are ASOF Special Skills?
Language; Survival, Evasion, Resist, and Escape (SERE) Level C; Military Free-Fall (MFF); Combat Diver, Diving Supervisor, Diving Medical Technician; Advanced Special Operations (ASO); Sniper; Mountaineering; SOF SSE; Special Forces Advanced Urban Combat (SFAUC); Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC); Joint Fires Observer (JFO); Small Unmanned Aircraft System (SUAS); SF Advanced Recon, Target Analysis, and Exploitation Techniques Course (SFARTAETC)
UW Preparation Phase
Intelligence Preparation of the OE.
War Planning.
Shaping Activites.
Foreign Internal Defense
Primary Function: Organize, train, advise, assist, and improve the tactical and technical proficiency of the HN forces.
Planning Considerations: Public perception, psychological impact, intelligence support, counterdrug operations, SOF and/or CF selection, public information programs, logistical support, combating CBRNE operations, CT, OPSEC, and lessons learned.
Country Team
The senior, in-country, US coordinating and supervising body, headed by the chief of the US diplomatic mission (Ambassador), and composed of the senior member of each represented US department or agency, as desired by the chief of the US diplomatic mission
-Regularly coordinate USG political, economic, and military activities in a HN
What is the Operations Center (OPCEN)?
includes representatives from almost all staff sections within SOTF. In charge of planning, preparing , coordinating, executing, controlling and assessing all current, mid-range, and future operations for a designated AOR. Primary staff sections in OPCEN are S-3, S-2 and S-5.
What is the Support Center (SPTCEN)?
Provides logistical support to the SOTF and its subordinate elements, similar to conventional unit’s trains. The GSC serves as the SPTCEN director and the HQ support company commander assumes these duties when the battalion forms a SOTF. Normally consists of the task force S-1, S-4, service detachment, motor pool, medical section, property book office, unit ministry team, organic support company and appropriate direct support-level logistics and force health protection attachments. SPTCEN director is normally the support company commander, responsible for the execution of all base logistics support and FHP operations, base support plan, and base security.
What is the Signal Center (SIGCEN)?
installs, operates and maintains secure, reliable and long-range communications between the task force and higher, adjacent, subordinate, supporting and supported HQ, and deployed SFODBs and SFODAs.
Consists of unit S-6 section, organic signal detachment, and attached or supporting signal elements. At SOTF level, SIGCEN usually organized into S-6 Communications-Electronics Section, Signal Detachment and Electronic Maintenance Section.
Special Forces Liaison Element (SFLE)
SF element that conducts liaison between U.S. CF, and HN or multinational forces.
Assistant Operations and Intelligence Sergeant (18F)
The detachment member responsible for all aspects of intelligence, CI, and protection for the SFODA and its indigenous forces. Assistant operations and intelligence sergeants will plan, coordinate, and conduct continuous collection planning and intelligence analysis in support of the detachment’s area study (Appendix A) and intelligence files effort.
During mission planning, he analyzes also requests imagery, maps, weather information, topographic terrain analysis products, and intelligence updates from the battalion S-2. In addition, he prepares the evasion plan of action, disseminates the mission classification guidance, and assists the commander in implementing OPSEC and information security procedures.
Operations Sergeant (18Z)
He is responsible for the day-to-day activities of the detachment. He advises the detachment commander on all operations and training matters. He provides leadership, tactical and technical guidance, and professional support to detachment members. With guidance from the commander, he assigns specific tasks, supervises the performance of detachment tasks, and prepares plans, orders, and reports. The operations sergeant oversees individual and collective training and prepares the operations and training portions of area studies, briefbacks, operation plans (OPLANs), CONOPS, and operation orders (OPORDs). He will supervise the detachment in the preparation of these documents. He writes daily training schedules and maintains responsibility for short-term training. He can organize, train, assist, direct, or lead indigenous forces up to battalion size.
Assistant Detachment Commander (180A)
He serves as the second in command or commands in the absence of the detachment commander during split-team operations and may command during composite team operations He provides technical, tactical, and operational expertise; provides advice and assistance to the detachment commander and detachment personnel across the SO continuum; and is an experienced subject-matter expert in UW. His primary responsibilities within the detachment
center around directing operational and intelligence fusion, the planning process for current and future detachment engagements, area studies and intelligence collection efforts, mid- and long-range training management, personnel recovery, integration of new technologies, interagency and intergovernmental relationships, and the application of ASO.
Detachment Commander (18A)
Has the overall responsibility for mission success or failure. He is responsible for the planning and the execution of the mission. He ensures that the SFODA’s mission and his intent are nested (two levels up). Often he is the senior representative of U.S. interests in foreign countries and is an expert in all things related to UW and COIN operations. He is an expert planner.
The SFODA
Mission: Designed to organize, equip, train, advise or direct, and support indigenous military or paramilitary forces engaged in UW or FID activities. Also includes the nine principle tasks.
Functions:
- Plan and conduct SF operations separately or part of a larger force
- Infiltrate and exfiltrate specified operational areas by air, land, and sea
- Conduct operations in remote areas and hostile environments for extended periods of time with a minimum of external direction and support
- Develop, organize, equip, train, and advise or direct indigenous forces up to a battalion size
- Train, advise, and assist other U.S. and multinational forces and agencies
- Plan and conduct unilateral SF operations
- Perform other SO activities as directed by higher authority
What are the CORE SF Attributes
- Integrity
- Courage
- Perseverance
- Personal Responsibility
- Professionalism
- Adaptability
- Team Player
- Capability
