MOD C Flashcards
End states of UW
Coerce
Disrupt
Overthrow
2 types of resistance
Clandestine
Overt
7 Dynamics of resistance
Leadership
Ideology
Objectives
Environment and geography
External support
Phasing and timing
Organizational and operational patterns
End states: coerce disrupt overthrow
3 phases for the dynamics of a resistance
1: strategic defensive (latent or incipient)
2: strategic stalemate (guerrilla warfare)
3: strategic offensive (war of movement)
Components of a resistance
Underground- forms shadow government
Auxiliary
Guerrilla force
Public
Shadow government
Governmental elements and activities performed by the irregular organization that will eventually take the place of the existing government
Government in exile
A government in exile is a government displaced from its country of origin, yet remains recognized as a legitimate sovereign authority of a nation
Logistics
Accompanying
On call
Types of resupply
Automatic
On call
Emergency
Authorities to Support to resistance (STR)
POTUS
SECDEF
Support to resistance approach
Understand the environment and asses resistance potential
Plan the support to resistance effort
Prepare the environment and execute support the resistance
Transition to a desired post conflict state
Support to resistance activities
Enable political activities
Shape the information environment
Provide material and non material assistance
Conduct military and para military operations
Resistance force assessments
Feasibility
Capability
Area
5 types of support to resistance
Resistance against an occupying power
Insurgencies against a sovereign state
Indigenous resistance elements in:
Support of,
- Foreign internal defense
- counterterrorism, counter proliferation or stability operations
In a contested, un-governed space
Resistance
Generally begins with the desire of individuals to remove intolerable conditions imposed upon them by an unpopular regime or occupying power
7 phases of UW
Preparation
Initial contact
Infiltration
Organization
Build up
Employment
Transition
Traditional warfare
Is characterized as a violent struggle for domination between nation states or coalitions and alliances of nation states
Resistance partner
A partner conducting resistance with whom the USG mutually establishes agreements to cooperate for some specified time in pursuit of mutually supporting specific objectives
Agitation
Overcoming target audiences psychological and physical barriers to increase the flow of information by delivering messages that are credible and meaningful, must intensify and channel their unrest to suit the underground
Intelligence operations
Support to sabotage
Intel focused on scientific and military secrets
Tactical intelligence
Political intelligence
Area complex must include
Logistical, medical and guerrilla bases
ASCOPE
Areas
Structures
Capabilities
Organizations
People
Events
4 components of a successful resistance
Auxiliary
Underground
Guerrilla force
Public component
Resistance area command
The largest territorial resistance organization commanded by a senior resistance leader inside a defined resistance area of operations
Area command
The irregular organizational structure established within an unconventional warfare operational area to command and control irregular forces
Area complex
Is a clandestine dispersed network of facilities to support resistance activities in a given area designed to achieve security control dispersion and flexibility
PMESII
Is the analysis approach used to analyze an entire country’s systems for successful mission planning
DIMEFIL
Diplomatic
Information
Military
Economic
Financial
Intelligence
Law enforcement
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
6 activities of UW
Sabotage
Subversion
Guerrilla warfare
Unconventional assisted recovery
Preparation of the environment
Intelligence operations
Mao’s 3 phases of development for a resistance movement
Strategic defense
“ “ Stalemate
“ “ Offense
Surrogate
Someone who acts on behalf of another and is an employee or subordinate that an employer commands and controls. The employer bears some legal and moral responsibility for their actions
The guerrilla component resists
Overtly
4 functions of the auxiliary
Logistics and personnel transport
Recruitment
Intelligence collection
Safe house management
2 types of Initial contact
Lower to higher
Initial contact above ODA level
4 strategic goals
Globalist
Anarchist
Traditionalist
Reformist
Clandestine operations
Operations sponsored or conducted by governmental departments or agencies in such a way as to assure secrecy or concealment. Emphasis is placed on concealment of the operation rather than on concealment of the identity of the sponsor.
