Mod C Exam

Question 1

7 Phases of unconventional warfare:

Answer 1

Mission Preparation
Initial contact
Infiltration
Organization
Buildup
Employment
Transition

Question 2

Acronym PMESII:

Answer 2

Political
Military
Economic
Social
Infrastructure
Information

Question 3

2 types of intelligence operations:

Answer 3

Focus on scientific and military secrets

In support of sabotage

Question 4

3 types of infrastructures that must be included in an area complex:

Answer 4

Logistics
Medical facilities
Guerilla Base

Question 5

ASCOPE:

Answer 5

Area
Structure
Capability
Organization
People
Events

Question 6

4 primary components of successful resistance movements:

Answer 6

Public component
Underground
Auxiliary
Guerilla or Armed Force

Question 7

In small scale UW the military instrument of national power is the main effort, true or false:

Answer 7

False

Question 8

7 Dynamics of UW:

Answer 8

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

Question 9

6 UW activities:

Answer 9

Subversion
Sabotage
Preparation of the Environment
Intelligence Operations
Guerrilla Warfare
Unconventional Assisted Recovery

Question 10

Difference between General and Strategic Sabotage:

Answer 10

-General Sabotage Disrupts normal flow of production by making everything less optimal.
-Strategic Sabotage is a single event with significant impact.

(General Sabotage: Disrupts normal flows of production, wears everything out faster, and makes everything operate less optimally. The effect of generalized sabotage is to increase enemy expenditure of money, time, and manpower, while hurting his morale and cohesiveness.)

(Strategic Sabotage: Is a single event that may have significant strategic or operational impact disproportionate to the means employed.)

Question 11

3 Development phases:

Answer 11

Strategic Defensive (Latent sapient)
Strategic Stalemate (Guerrilla Warfare)
Strategic Offense (War of Movement)

Question 12

Guerilla component resists in which way:

Answer 12

Overt Resistance

Question 13

Auxiliary functions: (know 4)

Answer 13

Recruitment, Safe-house management, Intel collection, Labor for special material fabrication

-Logistics procurement and distribution
-Labor for special materiel
fabrication
-Security and early warning for underground facilities and guerrilla bases
-Intelligence collection
-Recruitment
-Communications network staff
-Influence product distribution
-Safe house management
-Logistics and personnel transport.

Question 14

4 Types of initial contact:
(know two)

Answer 14

Know:
lower to higher
Initial Contact Above ODA level

(Higher to lower, Prearranged Contact Plan)

Question 15

Strategic objective is a desired end state that is critical to cohesion among resistance groups, it might be the movements only clearly defined goal, what are 4 examples of strategic goals:

Answer 15

Traditionalist
Anarchist
Utopian
Apocalyptic

Secessionist
Reformist
Preservationist
Pluralist
Globalist
Commercialist
Egalitarian

Question 16

Whose authority is needed to conduct support to resistance:

Answer 16

POTUS, SECDEF

Question 17

3 types of external logistics:

Answer 17

Automatic Resupply
On Call Resupply
Emergency Resupply

Question 18

During which phase of UW does a detachment reaffirm US government resistance leadership agreement and develop the area complex:

Answer 18

Organization

Question 19

The desire of individuals to remove intolerable conditions imposed upon them by an unpopular regime or occupying power:

Answer 19

Resistance

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Area Complex

Question 21

This is characterized as a violent struggle for domination between nation states or coalitions in alliances of nation states:

Answer 21

Traditional Warfare

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Shadow Government

Question 23

Define Resistance Partners:

Answer 23

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 24

Overcoming a target audiences psychological and physical barriers to increase the flow of information by delivering messages that are credible and meaningful:

Answer 24

Agitation

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Resistance Area Command

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Area Command

Question 27

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:

Answer 27

Support to Resistance

Question 28

Government-in-exile:

Answer 28

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

Question 29

An employee or subordinate that an employer commands and controls and for whose actions the employer bears some legal and moral responsibility.

Answer 29

Surrogate

Question 30

Unconventional Warfare:

Answer 30

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.