Insurgent Ideologies, Strategies, and Infrastructures

Question 1

Resistance

Answer 1

An organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to resist the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability.

Question 2

Resilience

Answer 2

The national ability to withstand aggression while sustaining legitimacy and the national government. The degree of national resilience is critical in assisting the nation in defeating the enemy and regaining sovereignty.

Question 3

Insurgency

Answer 3

The organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify, or challenge political control of a region. Insurgency can also refer to the group itself.

Question 4

Resistance Principles (6)

Answer 4

Agility, Political legitimacy, Sanctuary, Social Drivers, Security, Restoration of Sovereignty

Question 5

Passive resistance (2 + examples (6))

Answer 5

encompasses a variety of non-violent activities.

Passive implies resistance by non-energetic compliance, as opposed to active antagonism.

Sedition, civil disobedience, boycotting, social ostracism, covert sabotage, propaganda

Question 6

Active resistance (5)

Answer 6

Subversion, strikes, overt sabotage, terrorism, insurgency

Question 7

Approaches to Resistance (3)

Answer 7

Localized, Infiltrative, Ideational

Question 8

Strategic Defense

Answer 8

Organization, consolidation, and preservation of base areas

Question 9

Strategic Stalemate

Answer 9

Progressive expansion by terrorist and attacks on isolated enemy units to obtain arms, supplies, and political

Question 10

Strategic Offense

Answer 10

Decision, or destruction of the enemy in battle

Question 11

MAO
Strategic Defense
Strategic Stalemate
Strategic Offense

Answer 11

US Army Doctrine
Latent or incipient
Guerrilla Warfare
War of Movement

Question 12

Guerrilla

Answer 12

An irregular, predominantly indigenous member of a guerrilla force organized similar to military concepts and structure in order to conduct military or paramilitary operations in enemy-held, hostile, or denied territory.

Question 13

Guerrilla Force

Answer 13

A group of irregular, predominantly indigenous personnel organized along military lines to conduct military or paramilitary operations in enemy-held, hostile, or denied territory.

Question 14

Guerrilla warfare

Answer 14

Military and paramilitary operations conducted in enemy-held or hostile territory by irregular, predominantly indigenous forces

Question 15

Elements of an insurgency (6)

Answer 15

Movement leaders
Combatants
Political cadre
Auxiliaries
Mass Base
Political Component

Question 16

Mobilization means (5)

Answer 16

Persuasion
Coercion
Reaction to abuses
Foreign Support
Apolitical motivations

Question 17

Dynamics of an insurgency (8)

Answer 17

Leadership
Ideology
Objectives
Environment and geography
External Support
Internal Support
Timing and Phasing
Organization and operational patterns