Mod C Exam Flashcards
7 Phases of unconventional warfare:
Mission Preparation
Initial contact
Infiltration
Organization
Buildup
Employment
Transition
Acronym PMESII:
Political
Military
Economic
Social
Infrastructure
Information
2 types of intelligence operations:
Focus on scientific and military secrets
In support of sabotage
3 types of infrastructures that must be included in an area complex:
Logistics
Medical facilities
Guerilla Base
ASCOPE:
Area
Structure
Capability
Organization
People
Events
4 primary components of successful resistance movements:
Public component
Underground
Auxiliary
Guerilla or Armed Force
In small scale UW the military instrument of national power is the main effort, true or false:
False
7 Dynamics of UW:
Leadership
Ideology
Objectives
Environment and Geography
External support
Phasing and Timing
Organizational and Operational Patterns
6 UW activities:
Subversion
Sabotage
Preparation of the Environment
Intelligence Operations
Guerrilla Warfare
Unconventional Assisted Recovery
Difference between General and Strategic Sabotage:
-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.)
3 Development phases:
Strategic Defensive (Latent sapient)
Strategic Stalemate (Guerrilla Warfare)
Strategic Offense (War of Movement)
Guerilla component resists in which way:
Overt Resistance
Auxiliary functions: (know 4)
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.
4 Types of initial contact:
(know two)
Know:
lower to higher
Initial Contact Above ODA level
(Higher to lower, Prearranged Contact Plan)
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:
Traditionalist
Anarchist
Utopian
Apocalyptic
Secessionist
Reformist
Preservationist
Pluralist
Globalist
Commercialist
Egalitarian
Whose authority is needed to conduct support to resistance:
POTUS, SECDEF
3 types of external logistics:
Automatic Resupply
On Call Resupply
Emergency Resupply
During which phase of UW does a detachment reaffirm US government resistance leadership agreement and develop the area complex:
Organization
The desire of individuals to remove intolerable conditions imposed upon them by an unpopular regime or occupying power:
Resistance
Clandestine, dispersed network of facilities to support resistance activities in a given area designed to achieve security, control, dispersion, and flexibility:
Area Complex
This is characterized as a violent struggle for domination between nation states or coalitions in alliances of nation states:
Traditional Warfare
The governmental elements and activities performed by the irregular organization that will eventually take the place of the existing government.
Shadow Government
Define Resistance Partners:
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.
Overcoming a target audiences psychological and physical barriers to increase the flow of information by delivering messages that are credible and meaningful:
Agitation
The largest territorial resistance organization commanded by a senior resistance leader inside a defined resistance area of operations:
Resistance Area Command
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 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:
Support to Resistance
Government-in-exile:
A government displaced from its country of origin which remains recognized, by some, as the legitimate sovereign authority of a nation.
An employee or subordinate that an employer commands and controls and for whose actions the employer bears some legal and moral responsibility.
Surrogate
Unconventional Warfare:
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.
