sage Flashcards
Unconventional Warfare
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.
Guerrilla warfare
Military and paramilitary operations conducted in enemy-held or hostile territory by irregular, predominantly indigenous forces.
Insurgency
An organized movement aimed at the overthrow of a constituted government through use of subversion and armed conflict.
General War
Armed conflict between major powers in which the total resources of the belligerents are employed, and the national survival of a major belligerent is in jeopardy.
Limited War
Armed conflict just short of general war, exclusive of incidents involving the overt engagement of the military forces of two or more nations.
Resistance Movement
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.
Denied Area
An area under enemy or unfriendly control in which friendly forces cannot expect to operate successfully within existing operational constraints and force capabilities. An area that is operationally unsuitable for conventional forces due to political, tactical, environmental, or geographical reasons. It is a primary area for special operations forces.
Subversion
Actions designated to undermine the military, economic, psychological, or political strength or morale of a governing authority
Clandestine
An operation sponsored or conducted by governmental departments or agencies in such a way as to assure secrecy or concealment.
Covert
an operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor.
Area Command
A command which is composed of those organized elements of one or more of the Armed Services, designated to operate in a specific geographical area, which are placed under a single commander. In unconventional warfare, the organizational structure established within an unconventional warfare operational area to command and control irregular forces. It consists of the area commander, his staff, representatives of the irregular organization, and ARSOF elements after infiltration.
Area Complex
An area complex is a clandestine, dispersed network of facilities to support resistance activities in a given area. The area complex is contested territory or an area that contains clandestine supporting infrastructure. It is not liberated territory. It represents the insurgent’s area of operations (AO).
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.
Cache
A source of subsistence and supplies, typically containing items such as food, water, medical items, and/or communications equipment, packaged to prevent damage from exposure and hidden in isolated locations by such methods as burial, concealment, and/or submersion, to support isolated personnel.
Government in Exile
A government that has been displaced from its country, but remains recognized as the legitimate sovereign authority.
Guerrilla
The overt military component of a resistance movement or insurgency
Guerrilla Base
A temporary site where guerrilla installations, headquarters, and some guerrilla units are located. A guerrilla base is considered to be transitory and must be capable of rapid displacement by personnel within the base.
Guerrilla Warfare Operational Area
The area in which the SFODA operations to conduct UW through the Guerrilla forces.
Sabotage
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 injure or destroy, any national defense or war materiel, premises, or utilities, to include human and natural resources.
Subversion
Actions designated to undermine the military, economic, psychological, or political strength or morale of a governing authority
Shadow Government
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 element of the irregular organization (underground, auxiliary, or guerrilla force).
Underground
A covert unconventional warfare organization established to operate in areas denied to the guerrilla forces or conduct operations not suitable for guerrilla forces.
Pilot Team
A deliberately structured composite organization comprised of SFOD members, with likely augmentation by interagency or other skilled personnel, designed to infiltrate a designated area to conduct sensitive preparation of the environment activities and assess the potential to conduct unconventional warfare in support of U.S. objectives.
Mission Support Site (MSS)
A preselected area used as a temporary base or stopover point. The mission support site is used to increase the operational range within the joint special operations area.
