REVIEW Flashcards

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Two key elements of narratives

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  1. They craft or support a believable story

2. They couple this story with actionable plans for those who encounter it.

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Definition of Internal Defense and Development

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The full range of measures taken by a nation to promote growth and to protect itself from subversion, lawlessness, and insurgency is their IDAD.

It focuses on building viable institutions (political, economic, social, and military) that respond to the needs of society.

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FID Tools?

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Indirect Support (Security cooperation, security assistance, MN/Joint exercises, exchange programs)

Direct Support (non-combat) (Civil-military operations, MISO, Military Training Support, Logistics Support, Intel and Comm sharing)

Combat Operations (Presidential Decision (Temporary Solution))

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IDAD functions? (4)

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The IDAD program blends four interdependent functions to prevent or counter internal threats:
Balanced development
Security
Neutralization of the threat
Mobilization
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5
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Activities of UW

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Subversion
Sabotage
Guerrilla Warfare
Personnel Recovery
Intelligence Operation
Preparation of the environment
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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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Sabotage

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is defined as an act or acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of a country by willfully injuring or destroying, or attempting to destroy, any national defense or war materiel, premises, or utilities, to include human or natural resources.
Passive or active.

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Guerrilla Warfare

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comprises combat operations conducted in enemy-held territory by predominantly indigenous forces on a military or paramilitary basis to reduce the effectiveness, industrial capacity, and morale of the enemy.
end-state=political decision

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Guerrilla

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an irregular, predominantly indigenous member of a guerrilla force organized similar to military concepts and structure IOT conduct military and paramilitary ops in enemy-held, hostile, or denied territory.

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Guerrilla Force

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a group of irregular, predominantly indigenous personnel organized along military lines to conduct military or paramilitary operations in enemy-held, hostile, or denied territory.

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Guerrilla Warfare

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Military and paramilitary operations conducted in enemy-held, hostile, or denied territory by irregular, predominantly indigenous forces

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12
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Three types of guerrilla warfare mission

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GW missions ISO theater commander’s UW campaign

GW missions to assist conventional forces engaged in combat operations

GW missions conducted after linkup with friendly forces

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Personnel Recovery

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is the sum of military, diplomatic, and civil efforts to affect the recovery and reintegration of isolated personnel.

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Intelligence Operations

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are the tasks undertaken by military intelligence units through the intelligence disciplines to obtain information to satisfy validated requirements

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Preparation of the environment

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is an umbrella term for activities conducted in foreign countries to shape and prepare an area for potential operations.

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16
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UW support? (3)

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Indirect support (USG may indirectly render support through a coalition partner or a third country location. normally limits indirect support to logistical aid and training)

Direct support (US assistance can include advisors in sanctuaries or insurgent-held controlled areas not in direct combat. US can also render aid from a neighboring country)

Combat support (include all of the activities of indirect and direct support in addition to combat operations)

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Underground

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a covert unconventional warfare organization established to operate in areas denied the the G forces or conduct operations not suitable for G forces.

18
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Auxiliary

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the support element of the irregular organization whose organization and operations are clandestine in nature and whose members do not openly indicate their sympathy or involvement with the irregular movement.

19
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Four type of feasibility

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Feasibility to conduct support to resistance has at least four different levels:
Political
Operational
Resistance capability
Feasibility to conduct UW
20
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Five type of Resistance

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Type 1: Resistance against an occupying power
Type 2: Insurgencies against sovereign state government
Type 3: Indigenous Resistance Elements in support of FID
Type 4: Indigenous Resistance Elements ISO CT, CP, or stability operations
Type 5: Indigenous Resistance Elements in a contested, ungoverned space

21
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Key efforts to support resistance (4)

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Enable political activities
Shape the information environment
Provide materiel/non-materiel assistance
Conduct military/paramilitary operations

22
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Three frames of narrative

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Diagnostic
Prognostic
Motivational

23
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Three phases of protracted warfare

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Strategic defense (organization, consolidation, and preservation of base areas)

Strategic stalemate (progressive expansion by terror and attack on isolated enemy units)

Strategic offense (decision, destruction of the enemy on the battlefield)

24
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Correlation US and Mao

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Strategic Defense - Latent or Incipient stage
Strategic Stalemate-Guerrilla Warfare
Strategic Offense-War of movement

25
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Shadow government (2)

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Governmental elements and activities performed by the irregular organization that will eventually take the place of the existing government. Members of the shadow government can be in any elements of the irregular organization.

The function of contacting, integrating with, forming, advising, supporting, resourcing, and employing the shadow government until such time as it becomes the internationally recognized sovereign state is critical to the campaign’s success.

26
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Government in exile

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A government that has been displaced from its country, but remains recognized as the legitimate sovereign authority.

27
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Dynamic of an insurgency (8)

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Leadership
Ideology
Objectives
Environment and geography
External support
Internal support
Phasing and timing
Organization and operational patterns
28
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Zonal Security and intelligence

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Zone A: the guerrilla base area itself.
Zone B: territory not well controlled by the enemy
Zone C: ENY security forces, police, and military controlled area

29
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Seven Phases

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Preparation
Initial Contact
Infiltration
Organization
Build up
Employment
transition
30
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Definition of FID

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is the participation by civilian agencies and military forces of a government or international organization in any of the programs or activities taken by the HN government to free and protect its society from subversion, lawlessness, insurgency, violent extremism, terrorism, and other threats to its security..

31
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Area Command (4)

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Directs, controls, integrates, and supports all resistance activities with the JSOA or region.

Located where the area CDR can safely control the resistance movement and its activities.

Flexibility, intelligence, mobility, and OPSEC

The size of area command is dependent on METT-TC

32
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Area Complex (2)

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An area complex is a clandestine, dispersed network of facilities to support resistance activities in a given area designed to achieve security, control, dispersion and flexibility.

Base camps, networks, communications, logistics, medical net

33
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Principles of Security

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Dispersion, mobility, OPSEC, INFOSEC

34
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SFA?

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unified action to generate, employ, and sustain local,

host-nation, or regional security forces in support of a legitimate authority.