Mod 3-Additional Cards Flashcards
What are 2 categories of UW Logistics/Supply
- Accompanying (what ODA brings)
2. External (Supplies delivered from outside the UWOA/JSOA by the Sponsor)
What are the 3 types of External Supplies when talking about UW Logistics
- Automatic (preplanned, usually activated after successful infil and radio contact)
- On-Call (items with unpredictable consumption)
- Emergency (mission essential equipment to restore capabilities or ensure survivability)
Define Support to Resistance (STR)
USG policy option to support foreign resistances
What makes STR (UW) an attractive option to USG Policy Makers
UW provides a lower military footprint and signature to the policy makers compared to large-scale military forces.
strategic: main effort (small scale UW) that can be discreetly targeted on the most high-stakes problems with specifically selected, prepared, and supported forces.
UW is an attractive strategic policy option as a global economy-of-force effort in secondary theaters, or a strategic and operational military option as a supporting line of effort to larger joint force campaigns (large scale UW).
T or F: is STR only using 1 part of the national instrument of power?
False
STR can use all elements in DIME
Which part of DIME can be summed as: a mixture of conventional forces and special operations and it will represent varying mixes of traditional and irregular warfare
Military
A partner conducting resistance with whom the United States Government mutually establishes agreements to cooperate for some specified time in pursuit of mutually supporting specific objectives is called what?
Resistance Partner
A ___ is someone who acts on behalf of another. A _____ is an employee or subordinate that an employer commands and controls and for whose actions the employer bears some legal and moral responsibility (same answer for both blanks)
surrogate
STR Approach: What we need to look at (4 additional things)
Understand the Environment and Assess Resistance Potential
Plan the Support to Resistance Effort
Prepare the Environment and Execute Support to Resistance
Transition to a Desired Post Conflict State
What are 2 types of Area Assessments
Immediate (Initial Assessment; one and done)
Subsequent (Principal Assessment-done pre and is ongoing during the mission)
4 Risk Factors that make UW a good policy option?
Diplomatic or political
Risk to force and mission
Risk of inaction on the part of the us government
Time required to train and develop forces.
Understand SF context for UW (how SF gets the big mish, think Mod 2)
Congress says prepare for UW
EXORD produced
Congress directs DoD with UW with Title 10 and USC 167
DoD designates USSOCOM
USSOCOM directs USASOC
USASOC gives to GCCs
ODA executes
What is done to decide if the ODA is capable and the Co/BN can support
Feasibility Assessment
What are the 2 roles the SF battalion has in the feasibility assessment process
support and guide ODA efforts
What does the ODA determine during its feasibility assessment (6)
Mission requirements TTPs IDs interagency coordination required resources training needs augmentation needs