MOD C Flashcards by Eduardo Flores

End states of UW

Coerce

Disrupt

Overthrow

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2 types of resistance

Clandestine

Overt

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7 Dynamics of resistance

Leadership

Ideology

Objectives

Environment and geography

External support

Phasing and timing

Organizational and operational patterns

End states: coerce disrupt overthrow

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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)

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Components of a resistance

Underground- forms shadow government

Auxiliary

Guerrilla force

Public

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Shadow government

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

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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

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Logistics

Accompanying

On call

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Types of resupply

Automatic

On call

Emergency

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Authorities to Support to resistance (STR)

POTUS

SECDEF

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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

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Support to resistance activities

Enable political activities

Shape the information environment

Provide material and non material assistance

Conduct military and para military operations

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Resistance force assessments

Feasibility

Capability

Area

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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

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Resistance

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

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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.