REVIEW Flashcards
Two key elements of narratives
- They craft or support a believable story
2. They couple this story with actionable plans for those who encounter it.
Definition of Internal Defense and Development
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.
FID Tools?
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))
IDAD functions? (4)
The IDAD program blends four interdependent functions to prevent or counter internal threats: Balanced development Security Neutralization of the threat Mobilization
Activities of UW
Subversion Sabotage Guerrilla Warfare Personnel Recovery Intelligence Operation Preparation of the environment
Subversion
actions designed to undermine the military, economic, psychological, or political strength or morale of a governing authority
Sabotage
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.
Guerrilla Warfare
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
Guerrilla
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.
Guerrilla Force
a group of irregular, predominantly indigenous personnel organized along military lines to conduct military or paramilitary operations in enemy-held, hostile, or denied territory.
Guerrilla Warfare
Military and paramilitary operations conducted in enemy-held, hostile, or denied territory by irregular, predominantly indigenous forces
Three types of guerrilla warfare mission
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
Personnel Recovery
is the sum of military, diplomatic, and civil efforts to affect the recovery and reintegration of isolated personnel.
Intelligence Operations
are the tasks undertaken by military intelligence units through the intelligence disciplines to obtain information to satisfy validated requirements
Preparation of the environment
is an umbrella term for activities conducted in foreign countries to shape and prepare an area for potential operations.
UW support? (3)
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)
Underground
a covert unconventional warfare organization established to operate in areas denied the the G forces or conduct operations not suitable for G forces.
Auxiliary
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.
Four type of feasibility
Feasibility to conduct support to resistance has at least four different levels: Political Operational Resistance capability Feasibility to conduct UW
Five type of Resistance
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
Key efforts to support resistance (4)
Enable political activities
Shape the information environment
Provide materiel/non-materiel assistance
Conduct military/paramilitary operations
Three frames of narrative
Diagnostic
Prognostic
Motivational
Three phases of protracted warfare
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)
Correlation US and Mao
Strategic Defense - Latent or Incipient stage
Strategic Stalemate-Guerrilla Warfare
Strategic Offense-War of movement
Shadow government (2)
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.
Government in exile
A government that has been displaced from its country, but remains recognized as the legitimate sovereign authority.
Dynamic of an insurgency (8)
Leadership Ideology Objectives Environment and geography External support Internal support Phasing and timing Organization and operational patterns
Zonal Security and intelligence
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
Seven Phases
Preparation Initial Contact Infiltration Organization Build up Employment transition
Definition of FID
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..
Area Command (4)
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
Area Complex (2)
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
Principles of Security
Dispersion, mobility, OPSEC, INFOSEC
SFA?
unified action to generate, employ, and sustain local,
host-nation, or regional security forces in support of a legitimate authority.
