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