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MOD C EXAM Flashcards

1
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What is the definition of UW?

A

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.

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What are the two types of warfare?

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Traditional – violent struggle for domination between nation states or coalitions and alliances of nation states

Irregular – violent struggle among state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant populations

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What type of UW is a supporting line of effort with the military being the main effort?

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Large scale

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4
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What type of UW is employed as a strategic main effort?

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Small scale

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5
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What is the difference between a surrogate and a resistance partner?

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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

A surrogate is someone who acts on behalf of another.

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6
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Why does a resistance normally begin?

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Desire to remove intolerable conditions imposed on them by an unpopular regime or occupying power.

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What is clandestine resistance?

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People who are part of the resistance, but outwardly follow their normal mode of existence

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8
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What ways do populations resist?

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Violent
Non-violent
Overt
Clandestine

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9
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What are the 7 dynamics of an insurgency?

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Leadership
Ideology
Objectives
Environment and Geography
External Support
Phasing and Timing
Organization and Operational Patterns
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Strategic objectives

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Traditionalist
Anarchist
Egalitarian
Pluralist
Secessionist
Reformist
Preservationist
Globalist
Apocalyptic
Utopian
Commercialist
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11
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According to Mao, what are the 3 phases of an insurgency?

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Strategic Defensive
Strategic Stalemate
Strategic Offensive

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12
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What are the 4 main components of a resistance?

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Underground
Auxiliary
Guerrilla
Public Component

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Functions of the Underground

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A cellular covert element within unconventional warfare that is compartmentalized and conducts covert or clandestine activities in areas normally denied to the auxiliary and the guerrilla force. Forms the shadow government.

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Functions of the auxiliary

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Logistics
Safehouse mgmt.
Transportation
Security and early warning
Communication network staff
Recruitment
Labor for special materiel fabrication
Intelligence collection
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15
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Functions of Guerilla Force

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A group of irregular, predominantly indigenous personnel organized along military lines to conduct military and paramilitary operations in enemy-held, hostile, or denied territory.

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Functions of Public Component

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An overt political manifestation of a resistance. Are primarily responsible for negotiations with the state government or occupying power representative on behalf of resistance movement objected.

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17
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What is a shadow government, and what purpose do they serve?

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

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18
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What is an area command? And what are their components?

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A resistance area command is the largest territorial resistance organization commanded by a senior resistance leader inside a defined resistance AO

19
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What is an area complex?

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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

20
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To support resistance activities, what must the area complex include?

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Must include a security system, guerilla bases, communications, logistics, medical facilities, and a series of networks capable of moving personnel and supplies

21
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What is a government in exile?

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A government-in-exile is a government displaced from its country of origin, yet remains recognized as a legitimate sovereign authority of a nation.

22
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What is required for an operation to be considered STR?

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Must require at least one resistance partner

23
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What are the 5 types of STR? Briefly describe.

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Resistance against an occupying power –
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

24
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What are the 7 phases of UW?

A 
Preparation of the Environment 
Initial Contact
Infiltration 
Assessment
Build-Up
Employment
Transitions
25
Q

What is useful for analysis of an entire target country’s system for successful mission planning?

A

PMESII

26
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ASCOPE

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Areas
Structures
Capabilities
Organizations
People
Events
27
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What are the 6 types of initial contact?

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Higher to lower (US Government to Resistance)
Lower to higher
Prearranged contact plan
Initial contact above ODA level
Chance contact
Deliberate contact
28
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What are the 6 activities of UW?

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Intelligence Operations
Preparation of the Environment
Unconventional Assisted Recovery
Subversion
Sabotage
Guerilla Warfare
29
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What are the different types of intelligence operations?

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Tactical Intelligence
Intelligence ISO Sabotage
Intelligence Focused on Science and Military Secrets
Political Intelligence

30
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PE conducted as an activity will always need to have:

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EXORD from POTUS/SECDEF or a presidential finding to conduct UW

31
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UW Conducted in 3 different ways

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Low visibility

Clandestine operations – operations sponsored or conducted by governmental departments or agencies in such a way as to assure secrecy or concealment. Differs from covert operations in that it places emphasis on concealment of the operation instead of concealment of the identity of the sponsor

Covert operations – operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor

32
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What activity of UW is deemed the most important?

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Subversion

33
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What is the purpose of agitation?

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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

34
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What are the two types of sabotage?

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General sabotage - the ability to damage or slow something with natural means

Strategic sabotage – may have significant strategic or operational impact disproportionate to the means employed

35
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What is the analysis approach used to analyze an entire country system for successful mission planning?

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PMESII

36
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What is Cell in series

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The cells in series provide a division of labor

37
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What is Cell in parallel

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Using parallel cells provides the overall organization operational redundancy.

38
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Overt resistance

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

39
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There are two types of logistics in UW:

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Accompanying and External

Automatic resupply, On call resupply, Emergency resupply

40
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First component to form and is always present:

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Also forms the shadow government: Underground

41
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How does a Guerrilla force resist

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They are the OVERT military component

42
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What is DIMEFIL

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Diplomatic
Information
Military
Economic
Financial
Intelligence
Law Enforcement
43
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What is Area Command

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

44
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What is Resistance Area Command

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A resistance area command is the largest territorial resistance organization commanded by a senior resistance leader inside a defined resistance AO

18 Series SLC (21 decks)

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