STR 3

Question 1

Shadow Government (3)

Answer 1

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.

The functions 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.

Question 2

Area command (4)

Answer 2

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

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

Flexibility, intelligence, mobility, and OPSEC are the keys to survival and success.

The size of the area command is dependent on METT-TC.

Question 3

Sector Command (4)

Answer 3

Large area commands may establish subordinate sector commands.

Sector command meetings are conducted after the initial area command meeting.

Sectors are formed to simplify C4I operations.

Mechanism to promote centralized planning and decentralized execution.

Question 4

Area complex

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

Elements of the area complex (9)

Answer 5

Comprehensive security system
Insurgent support network
Base camps
Communications
Logistics
Medical facilities
Supply caches
Training area
Escape and recovery mechanisms

Question 6

Insurgent support networks (8)

Answer 6

Logistic support networks
Medical support networks
Communications networks
Information and propaganda networks
Transportations networks
Recruitment networks
Intelligence and CI networks
Finance networks

Question 7

Principles of security

Answer 7

Dispersion
Mobility
OPSEC

INFOSEC

Question 8

Comprehensive security system

Answer 8

Zonal security and intelligence
Zone A: the insurgent base area itself
Zone B: Territory not well controlled by the enemy in which insurgent forces can operate overtly
Zone C: Enemy security forces, police, and military controlled areas.

Question 9

Zone A?

Answer 9

The insurgent base itself.

It is secured by a regular guard system, but it largely depends for its safety upon advance warnings received by clandestine agents in Zone C or posted observers in Zone B.

Question 10

Zone B?

Answer 10

Territory lying beyond Zone A that is not well controlled by the enemy in which insurgent forces can operate overtly.

The warning system depends on stationed observers, watching for enemy movements.

Question 11

Zone C?

Answer 11

Enemy security forces, police, and military units exercise relatively effective control, and the populace may be predominantly hostile to insurgents.

At the same time, there are excellent and rapid LOC, whereby clandestine agents are able to warn the insurgents quickly of enemy activity