Mod C

Question 1

Unconventional Warfare definition:

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

UW activities:

Answer 2

Subversion, Sabotage, PE, Intel, Guerrilla Warfare, unconventional assisted recovery

Question 3

Resistance movement definition:

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Insurgency Definition:

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Coercion definition:

Answer 5

Forcing someone or some entity to do something it would rather not do.

75% success rate.

Question 6

Disruption definition:

Answer 6

Prevents or impedes some entity from doing something it would prefer to do.

Question 7

Resistance definition:

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What ways the population resists:

Answer 8

Violent, Non-violent, Clandestine, Overt

Question 9

Clandestine Resistance definition:

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Overt Resistance Define:

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Ideology Definition:

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

11 Strategic objectives:

Answer 12

Anarchist
Egalitarian
Traditionalist
Pluralist
Secessionist
Reformist
Preservationist
Globalist
Apocalyptic
Utopian
Commercialist

Question 13

Phasing of phasing and timing:

Answer 13

Strategic defense (Latent or Incipient)

Strategic stalemate (Guerrilla Warfare)

Strategic Offensive (War of Movement)

Question 14

7 Dynamics of UW:

Answer 14

-Leadership
-Ideology
-Objectives
-Environment and Geography
-External support
-Phasing and Timing
-Organizational and Operational Patterns

Question 15

Which component is always first to form?

Answer 15

Underground

Question 16

Underground activities: (the one to remember)

Answer 16

Forms a shadow government

Question 17

Auxiliary functions:

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

3 end states of UW

Answer 18

Coerce, disrupt, overthrow

Question 19

3 end states of UW

Answer 19

Coerce, disrupt, overthrow

Question 20

Auxiliary actions are _______ in nature.

Answer 20

clandestine

Question 21

Cells in series provide what?

Answer 21

A Division of labor

Question 22

Using parallel cells creates what?

Answer 22

Redundancy

Question 23

Define public components:

Answer 23

Primarily responsible for negotiations with the state government or occupying power representatives on behalf of resistance movement objectives.

Question 24

Three components of UW:

Answer 24

Underground, auxiliary, guerrilla force

Question 25

Define Area Command:

Answer 25

The irregular organizational structure established within an unconventional warfare operational area to command and control irregular forces advised by Army Special Forces.

Question 26

Define Resistance Area Command:

Answer 26

The largest territorial resistance organization commanded by a senior resistance leader inside a defined resistance area of operations.

Question 27

Define Area Complex:

Answer 27

Clandestine, dispersed network of facilities to support resistance activities in a given area designed to achieve security, control, dispersion, and flexibility.

Question 28

Area Complex must include:

Answer 28

-Security system
-guerrilla bases
-communications
-logistics
-medical facilities
-Series of networks capable of moving personnel and supplies.

Question 29

Define Shadow Government:

Answer 29

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).

Question 30

Define Government-in-exile:

Answer 30

A government displaced from its country of origin which remains recognized, by some, as the legitimate sovereign authority of a nation.

Question 31

2 types of logistics:

Answer 31

Accompanying logistics, External Logistics

Question 32

3 types of Resupply:

Answer 32

Automatic, On-call, Emergency

Question 33

Define Support to Resistance:

Answer 33

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.

Question 34

Define Resistance Partner:

Answer 34

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.

Question 35

Define Surrogate:

Answer 35

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.

Question 36

Important principal of resistance:

Answer 36

Most successful resistance efforts require some level of popular support.

Question 37

2 Area Assessments:

Answer 37

Immediate initial assessment, Subsequent-principal assessment

Question 38

Environments where initial assessments are conducted:

Answer 38

Urban, Rural