STR 4

Question 1

SFOD-A UW Seven Phases

Answer 1

Preparation
Initial Contact
Infiltration
Organization
Buildup
Employment
Transition

Question 2

Phase 1 - Mission Preparation (9)

Answer 2

Premission training
intelligence
TIP
Area study
Personnel
Logistics and communications
Pre-employment preparations
Time sensitive/ crisis-action planning
Emerging missions

Question 3

Phase 2 - type of initial contact (6)

Answer 3

Higher to lower USG echelon resistance introduction
Prearranged contact plan
Asset debriefing
Pilot team considerations
Lower to higher USG echelon
Chance contact/ deliberate contact

Question 4

Phase 3 (2 + 3 assessments)

Answer 4

Infiltration
Move in a denied environment
Area assessment
Initial assessment
Principal assessment

Question 5

Phase 4

Answer 5

Objectives
o USG objectives
o Confirmation of mutually agrees upon partner objectives
o Build rapport

Development of the JSOA
o Identify
o Assess
o Develop
o Basic Command/ Basic org. structure/ Basic support structure
o Critical cadres

Question 6

Phase 5 (2)

Answer 6

Expansion of all resistance structures and functions

Degree of build up?
o Structures/ area complex/
o Resistance leadership opinion
o Uneven development

Question 7

Phase 6

Answer 7

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 7 (2)

Answer 8

The Army has realized that the guerrilla force is only one aspect of the 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
o Reintegration/ disposition of resistance
o UW End state/ Political End state

Question 9

Training circular 18-01.1

Answer 9

is a UW mission planning guide designed specifically for the ODA

incorporates all basic element functions that occur in the UW operating area

it is based on functions required