MOD C Flashcards

1
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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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7
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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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10
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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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11
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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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12
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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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13
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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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17
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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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20
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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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21
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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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22
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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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23
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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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25
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For an operation to be considered support to resistance, the USG must have how many resistance partners?

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At least one

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26
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What is the first component of a resistance to form?

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The Underground

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27
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How does the auxiliary resist?

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Clandestinely

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28
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How many types of area assessments are there and what are they?

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initial and principal

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29
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What are the two types of environments that an area assessment can be conducted in?

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Rural and Urban

30
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As an activity of UW, PE requires:

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An EXORD or presidential finding

31
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Subversion is considered the most_______________activity of UW

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Important

32
Q

What does PMESII stand for?

A
Political
Military
Economic
Social
Information
Infrastructure
33
Q

Is phasing and timing a phase of UW?

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No

34
Q

What determine the ODA’s ability to perform the mission and the ODB/BN’s ability to support to mission?

A

Feasibility Assessment

35
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What determine the ODA’s ability to perform the mission and the ODB/BN’s ability to support to mission?

A

Feasibility Assessment

36
Q

A single event of sabotage that may have strategic or operational impact is called:

A

Strategic Sabotage

37
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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?

A

Intelligence Operations

38
Q

Is “cutouts” a messaging platform used for subversion?

A

No

39
Q

Which UW activity consists of conducting military and paramilitary operations?

A

Guerrilla Warfare

40
Q

What does ASCOPE stand for?

A
Areas
Structures
Capabilities
Organizations
People
Events
41
Q

When does the ODA conduct the principal area assessment?

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During mission planning

42
Q

Whose authority is required for an ODA to conduct UW?

A

President

43
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Who serves as SOCOMS lead component in all matters of UW?

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USASOC

44
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As an activity of UW, SOF conduct________________ unilaterally with indigenous or surrogate personnel or with OGAs, employing compartmented TTPs

A

Unconventional Assisted Recovery

45
Q

What is the analysis approach used to analyze an entire country’s systems for essential missions planning?

A

PMESII/ASCOPE

46
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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?

A

Resistance

47
Q

T/F? PMESII is the analysis approach used to analyze an entire country’s systems for successful mission planning.

A

True

48
Q

Agitation

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Overcoming the target audience’s psychological and physical barriers to increase the flow of information by delivering messages that are credible and meaningful

49
Q

non-intelligence operation

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Intelligence focused on Counterproliferation of WMD

Advanced Artificial Intelligence

50
Q

What are three types of infrastructures that must be included in the area complex?

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Medical Facilities
Guerrilla Bases
Logistics

51
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Resistance Area Command

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largest territorial resistance organization commanded by a single leader inside a defined area of operations

52
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Area command

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irregular organizational structure established within a UW operational area to command and control irregular forces advised by Army Special Forces

53
Q

T/F? In small-scale unconventional warfare, the military instrument is the main effort.

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false

54
Q

What does “DIMEFIL” stand for?

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Diplomatic
Information
Military
Economic
Financial
Intelligence
Law Enforcement
55
Q

What are the six activities of UW?

A
Preparation of the Environment
Intelligence Operations
Unconventional Assisted Recovery
Sabotage
Subversion
Guerrilla Warfare
56
Q

surrogate

A

Who is someone who acts on behalf of another and is an employee that an employer commands and controls and is legally responsible

57
Q

How does the guerrilla component exist?

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Overtly

58
Q

What are four functions of the auxiliary?

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Logistics and personnel transport
Safe House Management
Recruitment
Intelligence Collection

59
Q

Government-In-Exile

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government that has been displaced from its country of origin yet remains recognized as a legitimate sovereign authority of a nation

60
Q

What are two types of initial contact?

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Lower to Higher

Initial Contact above the ODA Level

61
Q

What are four examples of strategic goals?

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Anarchists
Egalitarian
Traditionalists
Pluralists

62
Q

Whose authority is need to conduct Support to Resistance?

A

POTUS SECDEF

63
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Clandestine

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operation sponsored or conducted by governmental departments or agencies in such a way as to assure secrecy or concealment.

64
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Irregular Warfare.

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characterized as a violent struggle among state and

non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant population(s).

65
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Support to resistance

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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

66
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Coerce

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coercion is forcing someone to do something it would rather not do

67
Q

Disrupt

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impedes someone from doing something it would prefer to do. integral part of traditional warfare

68
Q

3 types of external logistics

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Automatic Resupply
On call
Emergency

69
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Clandestine Resistance

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people who are part of the resistance but outwardly follow their normal mode of existence conduct clandestine resistance.

70
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Overt Resistance

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Anyone who does not hide their opposition to the government is displaying open, overt resistance.

71
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Two types of intelligence Operation

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TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE
INTELLIGENCE IN SUPPORT OF SABOTAGE
INTELLIGENCE FOCUSED ON SCIENTIFIC
AND MILITARY SECRETS
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE