MOD C Exam Flashcards

1
Q

What are the 7 Phases of UW?

A
Preparation
Initial Contact
INFIL
Organization
Buildup
Employment
Transition
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2
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Delineate between resistance and insurgency:

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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.

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3
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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.

A

Area Complex

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4
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Difference between Traditional and Irregular Warfare:

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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

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5
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Governmental elements and activities performed by the irregular organization that will eventually take the place of the existing government

A

Shadow Government

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6
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Partner conducting resistance with whom the USG mutually establishes agreements to cooperate for some specified time in pursuit of mutually supporting objectives

A

Resistance Partner

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7
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PMESII

A
Political
Military
Economic
Social
Infrastructure
Information
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8
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What is the purpose of PMESII?

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Provide operational variables

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9
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Interpersonal and task specific communication directed toward a relatively small, selected audience

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Agitation to Target Audience

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10
Q

What are the different types of Intel Operations?

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Tactical
Political
Intel in Support of Sabotage
Intel focused on scientific and Military Secrets

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11
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What must the area complex include?

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Security Systems
G-Bases
Communications
Logistics Support
Med Facilities
Transportation
Info & Propaganda
Recruitment
Intel & Counter Intel
Finance
Networks for moving pax and supplies
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12
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ASCOPE

A
Area
Structures
Capabilities
Organization
People
Events
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13
Q

4 Primary components of Successful Resistance?

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  1. Underground
  2. Auxiliary
  3. Guerrilla or Armed Force
  4. Public Component
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14
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Irregular Organizational Structure established within an unconventional warfare operational area to command and control irregular forces advised by Army SF.

A

Area Command

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15
Q

In Small Scale UW is Military the main effort?

A

No

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16
Q

DIMEFIL

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Diplomatic
Information
Military
Economic
Financial
Intelligence
Law Enforcement
17
Q

7 Dynamics of Successful Resistance:

A
  1. Leadership
  2. Ideology
  3. Objectives
  4. Environment and Geography
  5. External Support
  6. Phasing and Timing
  7. Organizational and Operational Patterns
18
Q

5 types of Support to Resistance:

A

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

19
Q

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

A

Unconventional Warfare

20
Q

6 Activities of UW

A
Subversion
Sabotage
Guerilla Warfare
Un-Conventional Assisted Recovery
PE
Intelligence Operations
21
Q

Difference between general and strategic Sabotage:

A

General: Increase enemy expenditure of money, time, manpower, and hurt morale
Strategic: operational impact disproportionate to means employed

22
Q

Strategic Defensive (Latent/Incipient), Strategic Stalemate (Guerilla Warfare), Strategic Offensive (War of Movement)

A

Mao’s 3 stages/phase of war

23
Q

Who acts on behalf of another?

A

Surrogate

24
Q

4 ways a population can resist:

A

Violent, Nonviolent, overt, clandestine

25
Q

Guerilla Force resistance activities are this way a population can resist?

A

Overt

26
Q

What are the functions of the auxiliary?

A
Logistics
Safe House Security
Transporation
Early Warning
Recruitment
Intel Collection
27
Q

Government displaced from its country of origin, yet remains recognized as a legitimate sovereign authority of a nation

A

Government in Exile

28
Q

6 types of Initial Contact

A
  1. Higher to Lower
  2. Lower to Higher
  3. Pre-Arranged Contact Plan
  4. Initial Contact above ODA level
  5. Chance Contact
  6. Deliberate Contact
29
Q

What are some strategic goals:

A
Anarchist
Egalitarian
Traditionalist
Pluralist
Secessionist
Reformist
Preservationist
Globalist
Apocalyptic
Utopian
Commercialist
30
Q

Whose authority is required to conduct STR?

A

President or SEC DEF

31
Q

What is the difference between Clandestine and Covert Operations?

A

An operation sponsored or conducted by governmental departments or agencies in such a way as to assure secrecy or concealment is clandestine.

32
Q

What are the two types of area assessments?

A

Initial and principle

33
Q

What type of operations are aimed at shaping perceptions?

A

MISO

34
Q

What type of support are planned unilateral logistics?

A

External Support

35
Q

In Small Scale UW, Military, is likely to support the other instruments of national power.

A

True

36
Q

What STRs are classic UW?

A

STR Type I: Resistance against an occupying power

STR Type II: Insurgencies against a sovereign state government

37
Q

4 different levels at which feasibility to support resistance has meaning:

A
  1. Political
  2. Operational
  3. Resistance capability
  4. Feasibility to conduct UW