MOD C (Quiz 1)

Question 1

What is the definition of UW

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

What constitutes a denied area?

Answer 2

An area under hostile control in which friendly forces cannot operate

Question 3

What are the end states of UW?

Answer 3

Coerce
Disrupt
Overthrow

Question 4

How and why does a resistance normally begin?

Answer 4

Resistance movements usually begin due to dissatisfaction with political, economic, social administrative, and/or other conditions.

Question 5

Four ways a resistance resists:

Answer 5

Clandestine
Overt
Violent
Non-Violent

Question 6

7 dynamics of insurgency

Answer 6

Leadership
Ideology
Objectives
Environment/geography
External support
Phasing and timing
Organizational and operational patterns

Question 7

7 Phases of UW

Answer 7

Preparation
Initial Contact
Infiltration
Organization
Buildup
Employment
Transition

Question 8

External Resupply

Answer 8

Automatic
On Call
Emergency

Question 9

CRITICALITY OF THE FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT

Answer 9

POLITICAL FEASIBILITY OF UNITED STATES SPONSORSHIP
OPERATIONAL FEASIBILITY OF SUPPORT TO RESISTANCE
RESISTANCE CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT
FEASIBILITY TO CONDUCT UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE

Question 10

Area Assessments

Answer 10

Initial and Principle

Question 11

SUPPORT TO RESISTANCE TYPE ONE:

Answer 11

RESISTANCE AGAINST AN OCCUPYING POWER
(CLASSIC UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE)

Example: U.S. support to the French Maquis resisting German occupation of their country in World War II

Question 12

SUPPORT TO RESISTANCE TYPE TWO:

Answer 12

INSURGENCIES AGAINST A SOVEREIGN STATE GOVERNMENT
(CLASSIC UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE)

Example: U.S. support to Tibetan insurgents in China during the early 1950s.

Question 13

SUPPORT TO RESISTANCE TYPE THREE:

Answer 13

INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE ELEMENTS IN SUPPORT
OF FOREIGN INTERNAL DEFENSE

(Resistance to Non-state Actor Occupation, In support of another Government)

Example: U.S. support to Iraqis in Mosul
resisting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria control of northern Iraq in 2017

Question 14

SUPPORT TO RESISTANCE TYPE FOUR:

Answer 14

INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE ELEMENTS IN SUPPORT
OF COUNTERTERRORISM, COUNTERPROLIFERATION,
OR STABILITY OPERATIONS

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Example: U.S. support to Syrians resisting Islamic State in
Iraq and Syria control of northern and eastern Syria from 2011 to 2017.

Question 15

SUPPORT TO RESISTANCE TYPE FIVE:

Answer 15

INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE ELEMENTS IN A CONTESTED, UNGOVERNED SPACE

Example: U.S. support to factions in the Second Libyan Civil War from 2014 to 2018