STR 2

Question 1

USG key efforts to support the resistance

Answer 1

Enable political activities
Shape the information environment
Provide material and non-material support
Conduct military and paramilitary operations

Question 2

Levels of USG STR (6)

Answer 2

No awareness of specific resistance
Awareness of, but no interest in specific resistance
Policy interest in specific resistance
Political Feasibility Assessment
Operational Feasibility Assessment
Policy Decision–> Requires Theater strategy

Question 3

Applied support (3)

Answer 3

Indirect Support (USG may indirectly render support through a coalition partner or third country location// USG normally directs undirect support to logistical aid and training)

Direct Support (US assistance can include advisors in sanctuaries or insurgent controlled areas not in direct combat// USG can render assistance from a neighboring country)

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

Question 4

Five Types of STR?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Products to support STR (3)

Answer 5

Unconventional Warfare Area Studies
Resistance Capability Assessment
UW Feasibility Assessment

Question 6

Four levels of feasibility to conduct STR

Answer 6

Political Feasibility
Operational Feasibility
Resistance Capability Assessment
UW Feasibility Assessment (operational and tactical level)

Question 7

The joint planning and execution community reviews the plan for? (4)

Answer 7

Adequacy
Feasibility
Acceptability
Completeness
Compliance

Question 8

Two type of area assessment

Answer 8

Initial Assessment

Principal Assessment