Principal tasks

Question 1

Define Counter Insurgency

Answer 1

Comprehensive civilian and military effort to defeat and contain an insurgency and address its root causes

Question 2

Define Counterterrorism

Answer 2

Actions taken directly or indirectly against a terrorist network to render the regional and global environments inhospitable to terrorist networks

Question 3

Define Security Force Assistance

Answer 3

Department of Defense activities that contribute to a unified actions by the USG to develop capability and capacity in a FSF and its supporting institutions

Question 4

Define Preparation of the Environment

Answer 4

Umbrella term for activities conducted by Special Operations Forces to develop the environment for potential future special operations programs

Question 5

Define Foreign Internal Defense

Answer 5

Participation by civilian and military agencies of a government in programs of another government to free and protect its society from subversion, lawlessness, insurgency, terrorism, and other threats to its security

Question 6

Define Special Reconnaissance

Answer 6

Reconnaissance and surveillance conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments to collect information of a strategic or operational significance employing capabilities not typically found in conventional forces

Question 7

Define Counter Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Answer 7

Actions taken to defeat the threat and/or use of WMD against the US, our forces, allies, and partners

Question 8

Define Direct Action

Answer 8

Short duration strikes or small scale offensives conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments employing specialized military capability