MOD B (7)

Question 1

Preparation of the Environment

Answer 1

• Umbrella term for operations and activities
• Special Operations Forces
• Develop an environment
• Potential future special operations

Question 2

PE Operations and Activities

Answer 2

• Operational Preparation of the Environment (OPE)
• Advance Force Operations (AFO)
• Intelligence Operations (Intel Ops)

Question 3

Operational Preparation of the Environment (OPE):

Answer 3

The conduct of activities inlikely or potential areas of operations to prepare and shape the operational environment. (FM 3-18 pg 3-14 para 3-66)`

Question 4

Advance Force Operations (AFO):

Answer 4

Operations conducted to refine the locationof specific, identified targets and further develop the operational environment for near-term missions. Also called AFO. (FM 3-18 pg 3-14 para 3-67)

Question 5

Intelligence Operations (Intel Ops):

Answer 5

The variety of intelligence andcounterintelligence tasks that are carried out by various intelligence organizations and activities within the intelligence process. (FM 3-18 pg 3-14 para 3-68)

Question 6

Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF):

Answer 6

Those Active and ReserveComponent Army forces designated by the Secretary of Defense that arespecifically organized, trained, and equipped to conduct and support specialoperations. (JP 3-05 / FM 3-18 Glossary 2)

Question 7

Ways SF has the Ability to Conduct Operations:

Answer 7

Covert /Overt
Low Visibility (LowVis) Operations
Clandestine Operation

Question 8

USC Allowing SOF to Conduct PE:

Answer 8

• Title 50

* Title 10

Question 9

Special Reconnaissance (SR)

Answer 9

• Conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments
• Information of strategic or operational significance
• Military capabilities not normally found in conventional forces.

Question 10

Reconnaissance (Recon/Recce):

Answer 10

A mission undertaken to obtain, by visual observation or other detection methods, information about the activities and resources of an enemy or adversary, or to secure data concerning the meteorological, hydrographic or geographic characteristics of a particular area. (JP 2-0 / ADRP 1-02 pg 1-78)

Question 11

Surveillance:

Answer 11

The systematic observation of aerospace, surface or subsurface areas, places, persons, or things by visual, aural, electronic, photographic, or other means. (JP 3-0 / ADRP 1-02 pg 1-91)

Question 12

Special Operation (SO):

Answer 12

Operations requiring unique modes of employment, tactical techniques, equipment, and training often conducted in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments and characterized by one or more of the following: time sensitive, clandestine, low visibility, conducted with and/or through indigenous forces, requiring regional expertise, and/or a high degree of risk.

Question 13

Hostile Environment

Answer 13

Operational environment in which host government forces, whether opposed to or receptive to operations that a unit intends to conduct, do not have control of the territory and population in the intended operational area

Question 14

Denied Area

Answer 14

An area under enemy or unfriendly control in which friendly forces cannot expect to operate successfully within existing operational constraints and force capability. (JP 3-05 / ADRP 3-05 / ATP 3-05.1) (Army) An area that is operationally unsuitable for conventional forces due to political, tactical, environmental, or geographical reasons. It is a primary area for special operations forces

Question 15

Sensitive

Answer 15

An agency, installation, person, position, document, material, or activity requiring special protection from disclosure that could cause embarrassment, compromise, or threat to the security of the sponsoring power

Question 16

Direct Action (DA)

Answer 16

• Short-duration strikes and other small-scale offensive
• Conducted as a special operation
• Hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments
• Employ specialized military capabilities

Question 17

Terrorism:

Answer 17

The unlawful use of violence or threat of violence, often motivated by religious, political, or other ideological beliefs, to instill fear and coerce governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are usually political