MOD C EXAM Flashcards
_______ generally begins with the desire to remove intolerable conditions imposed on them by an unpopular regime or occupying power.
Resistance
In what ways that populations resist?
violent
non-violent
covert
clandestine
People who are part of the resistance, but outwardly follow their normal mode of existence.
Clandestine
Someone who does not hide their opposition
Overt
What are the 7 dynamics of UW?
Leadership Ideology Objectives Environment and Geography External Support Phasing and Timing Organization and Operational Patterns
7 Phases of UW
Preparation Initial Contact Infiltration Organization Build up Employment Transitions
_____ is a clandestine dispersed network of facilities to support resistance activities in a given area designed to achieve security, control, dispersion, and flexibility.
Area complex
_____ warfare is a violent struggle for domination between nation-states or coalitions and alliances of nation-states
Traditional
According to Mao, what are the 3 phases of an insurgency?
Strategic Defensive
Strategic Stalemate
Strategic Offensive
What are the primary components of a resistance?
Public component
Aux
Guerilla
Underground
What is the first component to form and what is always present?
Underground
Who forms the shadow government?
Underground
Functions of the Auxiliary
Logistics Communication Medical Clandestine support Security Recruitment
Cell in series provide what?
division of labor
Cell in parallel provide what?
redundancy
________ is the largest territorial resistance organization commanded by a senior resistance leader inside a defined resistance AO
Resistance area command
What are some things an area complex must include?
Security
Guerilla base
Medical
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
Define 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.
2 types of planned logistics
Accompanying
External
Types of external logistical support
on call
emergency
automatic
What are the 2 types of warfare?
Traditional
Irregular
What is the analysis approach used to analyze an entire country system for successful mission planning?
PMESII
What type of UW is employed as a strategic main effort?
Small scale
What type of UW is a supporting line of effort with the military being the main effort?
Large scale
What is the difference between a surrogate and a resistance partner?
a. A resistance partner is 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
Surrogate: someone who acts on behalf of another.
In order to do STR how many resistance partners do you need?
One
Define Agitation
Agitation as it pertains to information activities: overcoming the target audience’s psychological and physical barriers to increase the flow of information by delivering messages that are credible and meaningful
Types of intelligence operations
i. Tactical Intelligence
ii. Intelligence ISO Sabotage
iii. Intelligence Focused on Science and Military Secrets
iv. Political Intelligence
3 types of infrastructure that must be included in an area complex
Must include a security system,
guerilla bases, communications, logistics, medical facilities, and a series of networks capable of moving personnel and supplies
ASCOPE
Areas Structures Capabilities Organizations People Events
What are the 5 types of STR?
Resistance against an occupying power –
An insurgency against a sovereign state government – French in WW2
Indigenous resistance elements in support of FID –
Indigenous resistance elements in support of CT, CP, or stability operations
Indigenous resistance elements in a contested, ungoverned state
Definition of UW
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 guerilla force in a denied area.
6 activities of UW
a. Intelligence Operations
b. Preparation of the Environment
c. Unconventional Assisted Recovery
d. Subversion
e. Sabotage
f. Guerilla Warfare
Difference between general and strategic sabotage
General: The ability to damage or slow something with natural means
Strategic: May have a significant strategic or operational impact disproportionate to the means employed
Most important activity
subversion
How does G force resist?
they are the OVERT military component
2 types of initial contact
Higher to lower
Lower to higher
4 Examples of strategic goals
- Traditionalist
- Anarchist
- Apocalyptic
- Globalist
Difference between clandestine and covert
clandestine- hides act
covert-hides sponsor
DIMEFIL
Diplomatic Information Military Economic Financial Intel Law Enforcement
Shadow government
Governmental elements and activities performed by the irregular organization that will eventually take the place of the existing government
The irregular organizational structure established within an unconventional warfare operational area to command and control irregular forces advised by Army Special Forces.
area command
A ________________ is the largest territorial resistance organization commanded by a senior resistance leader inside a defined resistance AO
Resistance area command
PMESII
Political Military Economic Social Information Infrastructure
ASCOPE
Areas Structures Capabilities Organizations People Events
