STR 4

Question 1

Seven Phases of UW

Answer 1

Phase I – Unit Mission PREPARATION Upon Receipt of an Order to Conduct UW

Phase II – Unit INITIAL CONTACT With Specified Resistance Assets During Mission Preparation or Execution

Phase III – Unit INFILTRATION of the Denied Area, Initial Assessment, and Linkup with Resistance

Phase IV – Unit STR ORGANIZATION, Confirmation of Mutual Objectives, Principal Assessment, and Resistance Cadre Development

Phase V - Unit STR BUILDUP and Expansion of Resistance Capabilities

Phase VI – Unit Advice and Support to the EMPLOYMENT of Resistance Capabilities

Phase VII – Unit TRANSITION From UW Mission Responsibilities to Follow-On Missions

Question 2

Phase I – Unit Mission Preparation Upon Receipt of an Order to Conduct UW

Answer 2

Premission Training
INTELLIGENCE
Target Intelligence Packet (TIP)
AREA STUDY
Personnel
LOGISTICS COMMUNICATIONS
Pre-employment Preparation
Time Sensitive / Crisis-Action PLANNING
Emerging Missions
Detachment Members’ Roles
Instructors

Question 3

Phase II – Unit Initial Contact With Specified Resistance Assets During Mission Preparation or Execution

Answer 3

Higher to Lower USG Echelon Resistance Introduction
Prearranged Contact Plan
Asset Debriefing
Pilot Team Considerations *
Lower to Higher USG Echelon Resistance Introduction
Chance Contact / Deliberate Contact

Question 4

Phase III – Unit Infiltration of the Denied Area, Initial Assessment, and Linkup with Resistance

Answer 4

Infiltration
Move in a Denied Environment
-Movement Techniques
-Caches
-Evasion
-Linking Up with Resistance
Initial Assessment
Principal Assessment

Question 5

Phase IV – Unit STR Organization, Confirmation of Mutual Objectives, Principal Assessment, and Resistance Cadre Development

Answer 5

Objectives
-USG Objectives
-Confirmation of Mutually Agreed Upon USG/Resistance Partner Objectives
-Build Rapport *

Development of the JSOA
-Identify
-Assess
-Develop
-Basic Command / Basic Organizational Structure / Basic Support Structure
-Critical Cadres

Question 6

Phase V - Unit STR Buildup andExpansion of Resistance Capabilities

Answer 6

Expansion of all resistance structures and functions

Creation of necessary resistance structures

Degree of buildup?
Structures / Area Complex
Resistance leadership opinion
Uneven development

Question 7

Phase VI – Unit Advice and Support to the Employment of Resistance Capabilities

Answer 7

Employment is not limited to only combat

Employment is not something that happens only when all previous phases have been completed and is not necessarily done only after all preparations are complete and executed all-at-once, on command, across the entire theater

Employment can be nonlethal political and organizational activities information and influence activities or agitation or street demonstrations by public component front groups is no less resistance employment than a guerrilla force setting an ambush of an enemy supply convoy in a mountain pass

Question 8

Phase VII – Unit Transition From UW Mission Responsibilities to Follow-On Missions

Answer 8

In the past, UW doctrine discussed phase seven as demobilization because the classic origins of the UW model was focused primarily on the guerrilla forces and their transition from irregular combatants to disarmed, postwar peaceful civilians—nonthreatening to the new government after cessation of hostilities

The Army has realized that the guerrilla force is only one aspect of resistance; all of the multifaceted considerations of a resistant society had to be considered and, where possible, assisted to transition from hostilities to the post-conflict reality

THERE ARE TWO CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TRANSITION PHASE *
-Reintegration / disposition of resistance
-UW Endstate /Political Endstate