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MOS Exam Flashcards

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Define Targeting

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Process during IPB which identifies the vital link between tactical tasks and strategic end states.

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High Payoff Target

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A target who’s loss to the enemy will significantly contribute to the success of the friendly course of action.

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High Value Target

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Target enemy requires for successful completion of the mission.

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Target Analysis

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An examination of potential targets to determine:
Military importance
Priority of attack
Weapons required

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F3EA

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Find, fix, finish exploit analyze.

Process SOTFs use for precision strike operations at operational level.

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Measures of effectiveness

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Assess changes in system behavior, capability, or operational environment. Tied to measuring attainment of an endstate.

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Measure of performance

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Criteria for measuring task performance or accomplish.

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Center of Gravity

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Source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act.

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3 components of COG

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Critical Capabilities: primary abilities which merit a COG to be ID
Critical requirements: essential conditions and resources
Critical vulnerabilities-what ODA focuses on

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CARVER Analysis

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Criticality
Accessibility
Recepurability
Vulnerability
Effect
Recognizability
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Definition of Special Reconnaissance

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R+S conducted in hostile, denies or politically sensitive areas to collect strategic or operational information. Employing capabilities not normally found in conventional forces.

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Definition of Recon

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Obtain information about enemy or adversary or secure meteorological, hydro-graphic, or geographic characteristics of a particular area.

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Definition of Surveillance

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Systematic observation of aerospace, surface or subsurface, places, persons or things by any and all means.

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Definition of Target acquisition

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Detection, ID and location at a target to permit future planning or follow on operations.

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Specific Data Collection

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All activities to collect date for purposes other than targeting such as planning for operations or missions that are intended to produce a non-lethal effect.

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Conditions where SF performs SR

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Inappropriate for conventional (politically sensitive)

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List Operational Phases of SR

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Insertion
Movement to OBJ
Collection on OBJ
Movement from the OBJ
Extraction
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Difference between Covert and Clandestine

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Clandestine-Assure secrecy or conceal act

Covert-Conceal identity or permit plausible deniability

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Difference between detection and compromise

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Detection-aware of presence that is outside normal patterns of life
Compromise-Knowledge of your mission and presence.

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ARSOF Core Attributes

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Integrity
Courage
Perseverance
Personal Responsibility
Professionalism
Adaptability
Team Player
Capability
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Definition of COIN

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Those military, paramilitary, political, economic, psychological, and civic actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency.

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Difference between terrorism and insurgency

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Insurgency-relies on civilian populace in terms of overthrowing government.
Terrorism-targets civilians more freely. A tactic, not an ideology focused on dominance over population.

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Difference between CT and COIN

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CT should be included within COIN as a whole of government approach.

COIN is a whole approach, a strategic policy that addresses causes.

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Role of SF in COIN Operations

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COIN is not a problem that is outsourced to the military.
-An aggressive approach to establishment security, rule of law, winning support of local populace, enhance host nation support. Forecast future problems and issues.

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Principles of COIN

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  • Legitimacy
  • Unity of Effort
  • Political primacy
  • Understanding the environment
  • Intelligence during the operations
  • Isolate insurgent groups
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COIN Imperatives

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Manage information and expectations
Use of measured force
Learn and adapt
Empower lowest levels
Support host nation
27
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Direct Action defined

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Short duration strikes as a special operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments
-Creates disproportionate effects

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5 DA Mission Criteria

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  • Is the mission appropriate for SF?
  • Does the mission support the GCC campaign plan?
  • Is the mission operationally feasible?
  • Are the required resources available?
  • Does the expected outcome justify the risk?
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Definition of SFAUC

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Special Forces Advanced Urban Combat

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SOF role in Specific Target Attacks

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Time-sensitive nature of effects

  • Target may present a higher risk to air platforms
  • The target may be difficult to acquire due to mobility, terrain etc.
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Types of Specific Target Attacks

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  • Direct Assault
  • Raids
  • Ambushes
  • Sniping
  • Emplace Mines
  • Emplace Obstacles
  • Provide Terminal Guidance
  • Employ Standoff Weapons
  • Sabotage
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5 Phases of DA

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  • Pre-Deployment
  • Deployment
  • Employment
  • Re-Deployment
  • Post-Deployment
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3 unique considerations for SR related to the SOF imperatives (with example/justification)

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  • Understand Operational Environment: Must have firm grasp of PMESII
  • Recognize Political Implications: SR compromise can have political effects.
  • Facilitate Interagency Activities: SR accomodates SIR, PIR, IR and other requirements generated by other agencies.
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SOF imperatives

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  • Understand Operational Environment
  • Recognize Political Implications
  • Facilitate Interagency Activities
  • Engage threat discriminantly
  • Consider long-term effects
  • Ensure legitimacy and credibility of Special Operations
  • Anticipate and control psychological effects
  • Apply capabilities indirectly
  • Develop multipe options
  • Ensure long-term sustainments
  • Provide sufficient intelligence
  • Balance security and syncronization
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List the SR fundamentals

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  • Purposeful
  • Timely,
  • Reliable and Accurate,
  • Decentralized planning at lowest level,
  • Flexibility,
  • Stealth,
  • Situational Understanding of the Operational Environment.
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Definition of FID

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Participation by civil military agencies of a government to support another government to free and protect its society from subversion, lawlessness, insurgency, terrorism or other threats.

37
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Definition of IDAD

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Internal Defense and Development

  • Full range of measures take by a nation to promote its growth and protect itself from:
  • Subversion
  • Lawlessness
  • Insurgency
  • Terrorism
  • other threats
38
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Instruments of National Power

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Diplomatic, informational, military, economic.

39
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3 Conditions for US FID

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  • Internal disorder that presents threat to US interest
  • Threatened country requests US support
  • Capable of effectively using US assistance
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3 Categories of US FID

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  • Indirect
  • Direct
  • Combat Operations
41
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3 Security Assistance Programs

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  • Foreign Military Sales
  • Foreign Military Finance
  • International Military Edecuation
42
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Why SF is specified for FID

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  • Only organization chartered to conduct FID

- USSOCOM only COCOM legislatively mandated for FID

43
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Why is SF ideal for FID

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  • Regionally aligned
  • Culturally aware
  • Language qualified
44
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What is the approval required for combat operations

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POTUS

45
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4 Functions of IDAD

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  • Balanced Development
  • Security
  • Neutralization
  • Mobilization
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4 Principles of IDAD

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  • Maximum use of intel
  • Minimum use of violence
  • Responsive government
  • Unity of effort
47
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Types of DA Missions

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Specific Target Attack

Recovery Operations

48
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3 ways SFOD’s conduct DA

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Unilateral
Joint
Combined (indig)

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Definition of UW

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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.

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Define Guerilla Warfare

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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.

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Define General War

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In terms of UW, General War is the anticipation of large-scale U.S. involvement in the campaign.

52
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Define Limited War

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In terms of UW, it’s the use of limited-involvement operations to pressure an adversary.

53
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Define Resistance Movement

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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.

54
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Define Subversion

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Actions designed to undermine the military, economic, psychological, or political strength or morale of a governing authority.

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Define Denied Area

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An area under enemy or unfriendly control in which friendly forces cannot expect to operate successfully within existing operational constraints and force capabilities.

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Define Clandestine

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An operation sponsored or conducted by governmental departments or agencies in such a way as to assure secrecy or concealment (of the operation).

57
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Define Covert

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

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3 types of UW support to Resistance or Insurgency

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Direct-General War scenario; visibility not an issue
Indirect-Logistical aid and training/Limited War
Combat-All activities of indirect and direct support in addition to combat ops

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3 Conditions for US Sponsorship

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  • Weakened or unconsolidated Government or Occupying Power
  • Will of the Population
  • Favorable Terrain
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Resistance Movement Characteristics

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Willingness to Cooperate with US
Compatible OBJ/Ideology
Capable Leadership

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3 Factors for Feasibility of US Sponsorship

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Feasibility
Adequacy
Acceptability

62
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Two categories of supply

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Accompanying Supply

External Supply

63
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Law on use of enemy uniforms by US

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Hague Convention of 1907

64
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Law of Land Warfare directive

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USSOCOM Directive 525-89

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