MOD B Flashcards
Who is responsible for the National Security Strategy (NSS)
President of the United States (POTUS)
What are some of the President’s executive powers
The power to make treaties with senate approval
Can convene congress for special sessions
Is the commander in chief of the armed forces
Who is responsible for the National defense strategy (NDS)
Secretary of Defense (SECDEF)
What type of military authority is non-transferable
Combatant command (COCOM)
Who is responsible for the National Military Strategy (NMS)
Chairman of joint chiefs of staff (CJCS)
What is National Strategic Direction
The strategy and intent of the president, secretary of defense, and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff in pursuit of national interests
JIIM
Joint Interagency Intergovernmental Multinational
What are the four instruments of national power
DIME
Diplomatic
Informational
Military
Economic
_____ is the authority over forces that is limited to the detailed direction and control of movements or maneuvers within the operational area necessary to accomplish missions or tasks assigned
Tactical Control (TACON)
The _____ is the primary document in which the CJCS carries out his statutory responsibility for providing unified strategic direction to the Armed Forces
Joint Strategic Campaign Plan
DOD is divided into two categories
Generating and operating forces
What is unified action
Unified action synchronizes, coordinates, and/ or integrates joint, single-service, and multinational operations with the operations of other USG departments and agencies, NGOs, IGOs, and the private sector to achieve unity of effort. Unity of command within the military instrument of national power supports the national strategic direction through the close coordination with the other instruments of national power.
Comprehensive approach
The summary of unified effort from the NDS all the way down through DIME and JIIM
4 pillars of ARSOF capability
Indigenous approach to operations
Precision targeting
Understanding and wielding influence
Crisis response
3 operational components to USSOCOM
TSOC, JSOC, SMU
4 different types of command relationships
COCOM, TACON, ADCON, OPCON
3 levels of competition continuum
Cooperation
Cooperation below armed conflict
Armed conflict
What makes an operation joint
2 or more military departments
What part of JSCP supports the ambassador’s strategy
CSCS country specific cooperation section
GCC geographic combatant commands
AFRICOM
CENTCOM
EUCOM
SOUTHCOM
NORTHCOM
INDO-PACOM
SPACECOM
FCC functional combatant command
CYBERCOM
STRATCOM (strategic command)
TRANSCOM (transportation command)
USSOCOM
Why is USSOCOM unique
It performs service like functions and military/department like responsibilities and authorities
What does the generating force focus on
Recruiting Maintaining Organizing Servicing Supplying Training Mobilizing Demobilizing Administration Equipping
What are the Special Forces principle tasks
Unconventional warfare Foreign internal defense Counterinsurgency Security force assistance Special reconnaissance Direct action Counterterrorism Counter proliferation of weapons of mass destruction Preparation of the environment
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
Foreign internal defense
Participation by civilian agencies and military forces of a government or international organizations in any of the programs and activities undertaken by a host nation government to free and protect its society from subversion, lawlessness, insurgency, terrorism, and other threats to its security
Counterinsurgency
Comprehensive civilian and military efforts taken to defeat an insurgency and to address any core grievances
Security force assistance
DOD activities that support the development of the capacity and capability of foreign security forces and their supporting institutions
Special reconnaissance
Recon and surveillance actions conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or diplomatically and/or politically sensitive environments to collect or verify information of strategic or operational significance, employing military capabilities not normally found in conventional forces
Direct action
Short duration strikes and other small scale offensive actions conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or diplomatically sensitive environments and which employ specialized military capabilities to seize, destroy, capture, exploit, recover or damage designated targets
Counterterrorism
Actions taken directly against terrorist networks and indirectly to influence and render global and regional environments inhospitable to terrorist networks
Counter proliferation of WMDs
Those actions taken to reduce the risks posed by extant WMDs to the US, allies, and partners. CBRN weapons capable of high destruction or causing mass casualties, and excluding the means of transporting or propelling the weapon where such means is a separable and divisible part from the weapon
Preparation of the environment
An umbrella term for operations and activities conducted by selectively trained special operations forces to develop an environment for potential future operations. Which include
Operational preparation of the environment
Advance force operations
Intelligence operations
Indigenous approach to operations
Means to address challenges to regional stability with and through populations and partner forces empowered by persistent ARSOF engagement
Precision targeting
Involve DA and counter network activities enabled by SOF unique intelligence, targeting processes, and technology
Understanding and wielding influence
The SOF network of personnel, assets, and international partnerships represents the means to obtain early understanding of emerging local, regional, and trans regional threats and where opportunities exist for advancing US objectives
Crisis response
Provided by CONUS and OCONUS stationed alert forces and persistently deployed and dispersed units, provides national decision makers with agile, tailorable, and rapidly employable special operations formations necessary to respond to emergencies
IDAD
Internal
Defense
And
Development
OTERA
Organize
Train
Equip
Rebuild/ build
Advise
Operational level
The operational level links strategy and tactics by establishing operational objectives needed to achieve the military end states and strategic objectives. It sequences tactical actions to achieve objectives.
Tactical level
Where battles and engagements are planned and executed to achieve military objectives assigned to tactical units or joint task forces
War powers resolution
The president must communicate to congress the commitment of troops within 48 hours. Further, the statute requires the president to remove all troops after 60 days if congress has not granted an extension
War and defense powers
Under article I section 8, congress has the power to declare war, raise and support armies, provide and maintain a navy, and organize, arm, discipline and call forth a militia
3 levels of warfare
Strategic
Operational
Tactical
National Security Strategy
A document approved by POTUS for developing, applying, and coordinating the instruments of national power to achieve objectives that contribute to national security
Theater Special Operations Commands
SOCAF SOCEUR SOCPAC SOCKOR SOCNORTH SOCCENT SOCSOUTH
Combatant command campaign plan
Implementation of a combatant commanders strategy and seek to shape the operational environment by integrating posture, resources and achieve objectives and complement other government efforts related to a geographic region or functional area.
Military authorities
Title 6: Domestic security
Title 10: Armed forces
Title 14: Coast guard
Title 22: Foreign relations and Intercourse
Title 32: National Guard
Title 50: War and National defense
Range of Military Operations
Major operations and campaigns
Crisis response and limited contingency operations
Military engagement, security cooperation, and deterrence
