MOD C Exam Flashcards
What are the 7 Phases of UW?
Preparation Initial Contact INFIL Organization Buildup Employment Transition
Delineate between resistance and insurgency:
Unlike broad based resistance to occupying power, insurgencies are more likely to be organized and motivated along specific demographic, ideological, religious or other categories. Insurgency has a narrower focus than the population as a whole.
A clandestine, dispersed network of facilities to support resistance activities in a given area, designed to achieve security, control, dispersion, and flexibility. In contested territory.
Area Complex
Difference between Traditional and Irregular Warfare:
Traditional: Violent struggle for domination between nation states or coalitions/alliances of nation states
Irregular: Violent struggle among state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence of the relevant population
Governmental elements and activities performed by the irregular organization that will eventually take the place of the existing government
Shadow Government
Partner conducting resistance with whom the USG mutually establishes agreements to cooperate for some specified time in pursuit of mutually supporting objectives
Resistance Partner
PMESII
Political Military Economic Social Infrastructure Information
What is the purpose of PMESII?
Provide operational variables
Interpersonal and task specific communication directed toward a relatively small, selected audience
Agitation to Target Audience
What are the different types of Intel Operations?
Tactical
Political
Intel in Support of Sabotage
Intel focused on scientific and Military Secrets
What must the area complex include?
Security Systems G-Bases Communications Logistics Support Med Facilities Transportation Info & Propaganda Recruitment Intel & Counter Intel Finance Networks for moving pax and supplies
ASCOPE
Area Structures Capabilities Organization People Events
4 Primary components of Successful Resistance?
- Underground
- Auxiliary
- Guerrilla or Armed Force
- Public Component
Irregular Organizational Structure established within an unconventional warfare operational area to command and control irregular forces advised by Army SF.
Area Command
In Small Scale UW is Military the main effort?
No
DIMEFIL
Diplomatic Information Military Economic Financial Intelligence Law Enforcement
7 Dynamics of Successful Resistance:
- Leadership
- Ideology
- Objectives
- Environment and Geography
- External Support
- Phasing and Timing
- Organizational and Operational Patterns
5 types of Support to Resistance:
STR Type I: Resistance against an occupying power
STR Type II: Insurgencies against a sovereign state government
STR Type III: Indigenous Resistance Elements in support of FID
STR Type IV: Indigenous Resistance in support of CWMD, CT, or Stability Ops
STR Type V: Indigenous Resistance Elements in a contested, ungoverned space
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 G-force in denied area
Unconventional Warfare
6 Activities of UW
Subversion Sabotage Guerilla Warfare Un-Conventional Assisted Recovery PE Intelligence Operations
Difference between general and strategic Sabotage:
General: Increase enemy expenditure of money, time, manpower, and hurt morale
Strategic: operational impact disproportionate to means employed
Strategic Defensive (Latent/Incipient), Strategic Stalemate (Guerilla Warfare), Strategic Offensive (War of Movement)
Mao’s 3 stages/phase of war
Who acts on behalf of another?
Surrogate
4 ways a population can resist:
Violent, Nonviolent, overt, clandestine
Guerilla Force resistance activities are this way a population can resist?
Overt
What are the functions of the auxiliary?
Logistics Safe House Security Transporation Early Warning Recruitment Intel Collection
Government displaced from its country of origin, yet remains recognized as a legitimate sovereign authority of a nation
Government in Exile
6 types of Initial Contact
- Higher to Lower
- Lower to Higher
- Pre-Arranged Contact Plan
- Initial Contact above ODA level
- Chance Contact
- Deliberate Contact
What are some strategic goals:
Anarchist Egalitarian Traditionalist Pluralist Secessionist Reformist Preservationist Globalist Apocalyptic Utopian Commercialist
Whose authority is required to conduct STR?
President or SEC DEF
What is the difference between Clandestine and Covert Operations?
An operation sponsored or conducted by governmental departments or agencies in such a way as to assure secrecy or concealment is clandestine.
What are the two types of area assessments?
Initial and principle
What type of operations are aimed at shaping perceptions?
MISO
What type of support are planned unilateral logistics?
External Support
In Small Scale UW, Military, is likely to support the other instruments of national power.
True
What STRs are classic UW?
STR Type I: Resistance against an occupying power
STR Type II: Insurgencies against a sovereign state government
4 different levels at which feasibility to support resistance has meaning:
- Political
- Operational
- Resistance capability
- Feasibility to conduct UW
