Mod C Flashcards
Unconventional Warfare definition:
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.
UW activities:
Subversion, Sabotage, PE, Intel, Guerrilla Warfare, unconventional assisted recovery
Resistance movement definition:
An organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to resist the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability.
Insurgency Definition:
The organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify, or challenge political control of a region. Insurgency can also refer to the group itself.
Coercion definition:
Forcing someone or some entity to do something it would rather not do.
75% success rate.
Disruption definition:
Prevents or impedes some entity from doing something it would prefer to do.
Resistance definition:
Generally, begins with the desire of individuals to remove intolerable conditions imposed upon them by an unpopular regime or occupying power.
What ways the population resists:
Violent, Non-violent, Clandestine, Overt
Clandestine Resistance definition:
People who are part of the resistance but outwardly follow their normal mode of existence conduct clandestine resistance.
Overt Resistance Define:
Anyone who does not hide their opposition to the government is displaying open, overt resistance.
Ideology Definition:
Used to manipulate and influence the behavior of individuals within the group. Will serve as the rallying call for all members of the population to join the struggle.
11 Strategic objectives:
Anarchist
Egalitarian
Traditionalist
Pluralist
Secessionist
Reformist
Preservationist
Globalist
Apocalyptic
Utopian
Commercialist
Phasing of phasing and timing:
Strategic defense (Latent or Incipient)
Strategic stalemate (Guerrilla Warfare)
Strategic Offensive (War of Movement)
7 Dynamics of UW:
-Leadership
-Ideology
-Objectives
-Environment and Geography
-External support
-Phasing and Timing
-Organizational and Operational Patterns
Which component is always first to form?
Underground
Underground activities: (the one to remember)
Forms a shadow government
Auxiliary functions:
Logistics procurement and distribution (all classes of supply)
Labor for special materiel fabrication
Security and early warning for underground facilities and guerrilla bases
Intelligence collection
Recruitment
Communications network staff, such as couriers and messengers
Influence product (or propaganda) distribution
Safe house management
Logistics and personnel transport.
3 end states of UW
Coerce, disrupt, overthrow
3 end states of UW
Coerce, disrupt, overthrow
Auxiliary actions are _______ in nature.
clandestine
Cells in series provide what?
A Division of labor
Using parallel cells creates what?
Redundancy
Define public components:
Primarily responsible for negotiations with the state government or occupying power representatives on behalf of resistance movement objectives.
Three components of UW:
Underground, auxiliary, guerrilla force
Define Area Command:
The irregular organizational structure established within an unconventional warfare operational area to command and control irregular forces advised by Army Special Forces.
Define Resistance Area Command:
The largest territorial resistance organization commanded by a senior resistance leader inside a defined resistance area of operations.
Define Area Complex:
Clandestine, dispersed network of facilities to support resistance activities in a given area designed to achieve security, control, dispersion, and flexibility.
Area Complex must include:
-Security system
-guerrilla bases
-communications
-logistics
-medical facilities
-Series of networks capable of moving personnel and supplies.
Define Shadow Government:
Governmental elements and activities performed by the irregular organization that will eventually take the place of the existing government. Members of the shadow government can be in any element of the irregular organization (underground, auxiliary, guerrilla force, or public component).
Define Government-in-exile:
A government displaced from its country of origin which remains recognized, by some, as the legitimate sovereign authority of a nation.
2 types of logistics:
Accompanying logistics, External Logistics
3 types of Resupply:
Automatic, On-call, Emergency
Define Support to Resistance:
A 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.
Define Resistance Partner:
A partner conducting resistance with whom the United States Government mutually establishes agreements to cooperate for some specified time in pursuit of mutually supporting specific objectives.
Define Surrogate:
Someone who acts on behalf of another. A surrogate is an employee or subordinate that an employer commands and controls and for whose actions the employer bears some legal and moral responsibility.
Important principal of resistance:
Most successful resistance efforts require some level of popular support.
2 Area Assessments:
Immediate initial assessment, Subsequent-principal assessment
Environments where initial assessments are conducted:
Urban, Rural
