MOD C-UW Flashcards
What is the definition of a Resistance?
An organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to resist the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability.
What are the 11 Insurgency Strategic Objectives?
Anarchist Egalitarian Traditionalist Pluralist Secessionist Reformist Preservationist Globalist Apocalyptic Utopian Commercialist
Which component of UW is the irregular, predominantly indigenous personnel organized along military lines to conduct military and paramilitary operations in hostile or denied territory?
The guerrilla force.
What is the difference between Insurgency and Resistance?
Generally the same for for planning considerations its easy to think of a resistance movement forming in response to an occupying power where as insurgencies can develop over time out of discontent for the current regime.
What is the 0 Phase of UW?
The steady state or status quo between nations.
Who is the “mass base?”
The population from where the insurgents are drawn from.
Who is the part-time support element of the irregular organization?
The auxiliary.
What is the Area Complex?
Contested territory or area that contains clandestine infrastructure. Its the network of facilities and functions supporting the resistance in a given area.
What are the two types of UW efforts?
Small and Large Scale
What are the seven dynamics of a successful UW campaign?
Leadership Ideology Objectives Environment and Geography External Support Phasing and Timing Organization and Operational Patterns
What are the three components of UW?
Auxiliary, Underground, Guerrilla Force
What are the two types of Leadership in a UW campaign?
Centralized and Decentralized
What are the three types of supply in UW?
External
Internal
Accompanying
What are four ideologies of insurgencies?
Religious
Cultural
Language
Ethnicity
What is the definition of UW?
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.
What are the activities of UW?
PE NAR Int Ops Subversion Sabotage Guerrilla Warfare
What are the two types of cell structures?
Cells in Parallel (redundancy) and Cells in Series (division of labor)
What is the difference between large and small scale UW efforts?
Large scale is when UW is one LOE for a larger military effort where as small scale is when the UW operations is the primary effort of a larger USG initiative.
What is a shadow government?
Governmental elements and activities performed by the irregular organization that will eventually take the place of the existing government.
What is the definition of Insurgency?
The organized use of subversion and violence by a group or movement that seeks to overthrow or force change of a governing authority. Insurgency can also refer to the group itself.
According to Maoism, what are the three phases of an Insurgency?
- Latent and Incipient (Develop Insurgency)
- Guerrilla Warfare (Degrade government’s security)
- War of Movement (Collapse the government)
What is the Area Command?
The organizational structure advised by USSF to C2 the irregular forces.
Which component of UW is the covert element that is compartmentalized and conducts activities in areas normally denied to the other two components as well as provides the governmental component composed of full time operatives?
The underground.
Which activity of UW is always present?
Subversion
