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What are the 7 phases of unconventional warfare?

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  1. Preparation
  2. Initial Contact
  3. Infiltration
  4. Organization
  5. Build-Up
  6. Employment
  7. Transition
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Resistance

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begins with the desire of individuals to remove intolerable conditions imposed upon them by an unpopular regime

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Area Complex

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a clandestine dispersed network of facilities to support resistance activities in a given area designed to achieve security, control, dispersion, and flexibility

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Traditional Warfare

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characterized as violent struggle for domination between nation states or coalitions and alliances of nation states

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Shadow Government

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the governmental elements and activities performed by the irregular organization that will eventually take the place of the existing government

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What are the components of an Insurgency/Resistance?

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  1. Underground
  2. Auxiliary
  3. Guerilla (Armed Force)
  4. Public Component
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What are the three criteria for US sponsorship during UW?

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Feasibility, Adequacy, Acceptability

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What are the goals of an UW Campaign? Pertains to PE goals in UW as well

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Coerce, Overthrow, disrupt

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Unconventional Warfare Definition

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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 guerilla force in a denied area.

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Two types of UW

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Small Scale- UW is the main effort (no follow on Conventional forces)
Large Scale- UW is the supporting effort (follow on conventional forces)

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6 activities of UW

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Subversion
Sabotage
Preparation of the environment
Guerrilla Warfare
Intelligence ops
Non-conventional Assisted recovery
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3 Phase of an Insurgency

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Latent or Incipient phase - Develop
Guerrilla Warfare - Degrade
War of Movement - Collapse

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Define Resistance

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Disrupt civil order and stability and removal of occupying power. Form from an Insurgency or occupying power.

Specific type of insurgency aimed at the removal of an occupying power.

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Define Insurgency

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Armed conflict and subversion against indigenous or occupying power. Grow over time.

Insurgency can be used to remove an indigenous government or occupying power.

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What is benefit of a cell in parallel?

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Compartmentalization and Redundancy

Multiple cells completing the same tasks, without the knowledge of other cells. (Pros: Redundancy and Compartmentalization)

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Cell in a series

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Division of labor

Multiple cells completing different phases of the same task, without knowledge of other cells. (Pros: Security and plausible deniability) (Cons: Single compromise jeopardizes mission)

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Seven Dynamics of UW

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Leadership
Ideology-define
Objectives
Environment and Geography
External Support
Phases and Timing
Organizational and operational Patterns
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Objectives of UW

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i. Anarchist—destructively eliminate government entirely.
ii. Egalitarian—impose universal equality.
iii. Traditionalist—resist change and return to a perceived norm.
iv. Pluralist—break a monopoly on political discourse.
v. Secessionist—break off some section from the polity.
vi. Reformist—modify the application of laws and mores.
vii. Preservationist—safeguard valued institutions from change.
viii. Globalist—provoke supranational reorganization.
ix. Apocalyptic—act as catalyst for an envisioned end times.
x. Utopian—impose a theoretical vision of man’s perfection.
xi. Commercialist—facilitate greed through violent illegalities.

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Definition of subversion?

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Actions designed to undermine the military, economic, psychological, or political strength or morale of a governing authority.

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What are the two types of warfare recognized by the U.S. Military?

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Traditional and Irregular

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How is UW conducted on large scale versus small scale as it applies to the instruments of national power (DIME)

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Small-scale = Small Military
Large-scale = Large Military
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Two types of Support to Resistance?

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  1. Support to Resistance against an occupying power

2. Support to an insurgency against a sovereign state government

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What are the four ways in which a resistance resists?

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Overt, Clandestine, Violent, Non-violent

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What are the three phases of Mao’s development for a resistance movement?

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  1. Strategic Defense (Latent or Insipient)
  2. Strategic Stalemate (Guerrilla Warefare)
  3. Strategic Offensive (War of Movement)
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For an operation to be considered support to resistance, the USG must have how many resistance partners?
At least one
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What is the first component of a resistance to form?
The Underground
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How does the auxiliary resist?
Clandestinely
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How many types of area assessments are there and what are they?
initial and principal
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What are the two types of environments that an area assessment can be conducted in?
Rural and Urban
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As an activity of UW, PE requires:
An EXORD or presidential finding
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Subversion is considered the most_______________activity of UW
Important
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What does PMESII stand for?
``` Political Military Economic Social Information Infrastructure ```
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Is phasing and timing a phase of UW?
No
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What determine the ODA's ability to perform the mission and the ODB/BN's ability to support to mission?
Feasibility Assessment
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What determine the ODA's ability to perform the mission and the ODB/BN's ability to support to mission?
Feasibility Assessment
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A single event of sabotage that may have strategic or operational impact is called:
Strategic Sabotage
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Which activity of UW are the tasks undertaken by military intelligence units through the intelligence disciplines to obtain information to satisfy validated requirements?
Intelligence Operations
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Is "cutouts" a messaging platform used for subversion?
No
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Which UW activity consists of conducting military and paramilitary operations?
Guerrilla Warfare
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What does ASCOPE stand for?
``` Areas Structures Capabilities Organizations People Events ```
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When does the ODA conduct the principal area assessment?
During mission planning
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Whose authority is required for an ODA to conduct UW?
President
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Who serves as SOCOMS lead component in all matters of UW?
USASOC
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As an activity of UW, SOF conduct________________ unilaterally with indigenous or surrogate personnel or with OGAs, employing compartmented TTPs
Unconventional Assisted Recovery
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What is the analysis approach used to analyze an entire country's systems for essential missions planning?
PMESII/ASCOPE
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What is a partner conducting resistance with whom the USG mutually establishes agreements to cooperate for some specified time in pursuit of mutually supporting specific objectives?
Resistance
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T/F? PMESII is the analysis approach used to analyze an entire country's systems for successful mission planning.
True
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Agitation
Overcoming the target audience's psychological and physical barriers to increase the flow of information by delivering messages that are credible and meaningful
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non-intelligence operation
Intelligence focused on Counterproliferation of WMD | Advanced Artificial Intelligence
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What are three types of infrastructures that must be included in the area complex?
Medical Facilities Guerrilla Bases Logistics
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Resistance Area Command
largest territorial resistance organization commanded by a single leader inside a defined area of operations
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Area command
irregular organizational structure established within a UW operational area to command and control irregular forces advised by Army Special Forces
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T/F? In small-scale unconventional warfare, the military instrument is the main effort.
false
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What does "DIMEFIL" stand for?
``` Diplomatic Information Military Economic Financial Intelligence Law Enforcement ```
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What are the six activities of UW?
``` Preparation of the Environment Intelligence Operations Unconventional Assisted Recovery Sabotage Subversion Guerrilla Warfare ```
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surrogate
Who is someone who acts on behalf of another and is an employee that an employer commands and controls and is legally responsible
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How does the guerrilla component exist?
Overtly
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What are four functions of the auxiliary?
Logistics and personnel transport Safe House Management Recruitment Intelligence Collection
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Government-In-Exile
government that has been displaced from its country of origin yet remains recognized as a legitimate sovereign authority of a nation
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What are two types of initial contact?
Lower to Higher | Initial Contact above the ODA Level
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What are four examples of strategic goals?
Anarchists Egalitarian Traditionalists Pluralists
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Whose authority is need to conduct Support to Resistance?
POTUS SECDEF
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Clandestine
operation sponsored or conducted by governmental departments or agencies in such a way as to assure secrecy or concealment.
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Irregular Warfare.
characterized as a violent struggle among state and | non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant population(s).
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Support to resistance
United States Government policy option to support foreign resistance actors that offers an alternative to a direct U.S. military intervention or formal political engagement in a conflict
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Coerce
coercion is forcing someone to do something it would rather not do
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Disrupt
impedes someone from doing something it would prefer to do. integral part of traditional warfare
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3 types of external logistics
Automatic Resupply On call Emergency
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Clandestine Resistance
people who are part of the resistance but outwardly follow their normal mode of existence conduct clandestine resistance.
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Overt Resistance
Anyone who does not hide their opposition to the government is displaying open, overt resistance.
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Two types of intelligence Operation
``` TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE INTELLIGENCE IN SUPPORT OF SABOTAGE INTELLIGENCE FOCUSED ON SCIENTIFIC AND MILITARY SECRETS POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE ```

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