Tactical

Question 1

9 principle tasks of SF

Answer 1

Direct Action (DA)
Foreign Internal Defense (FID)
Preparation of the Environment (PE)
Special Reconnaissance (SR)
Security Forces Assistance (SFA)
Unconventional Warefare (UW)
Counter Proliferation of WMD (CPWMD)
Counter-Insurgency (CI)
Counter-Terrorism (CT)

Question 2

Definition of PE

Answer 2

• Umbrella term for operations and activities
• Special Operations Forces
• Develop an environment
• Potential future special operations

Question 3

activities of PE

Answer 3

Operational PE (OPE)
Advanced Force Ops (AFO)
Intelligence Ops (Intel ops)

Question 4

In what ways does SF conduct PE

Answer 4

Covert Ops
Low Vis Ops
Clandestine Ops

Question 5

Definition of SR

Answer 5

• Reconnaissance and surveillance
Conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments
• Information of strategic or operational significance
• Military capabilities not normally found in conventional forces.

Question 6

difference between recon and surveillance

Answer 6

Recon is a mission, Surveillance is a systematic observation

Question 7

What makes it Special Recon

Answer 7

Unique insertion capabilities
Regional expertise
Environmental skills

Question 8

Define DA

Answer 8

• Short-duration strikes and other small-scale offensive
• Conducted as a special operation
• Hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments
• Employ specialized military capabilities

Question 9

Types of Ops in DA

Answer 9

Raid, ambush, direct assault tactics (including close-quarters battle)
Emplace mines and other munitions
Conduct standoff attacks by fire from air, ground, or maritime
platforms
Provide terminal guidance for precision-guided munitions
Conduct independent sabotage
Conduct antiship operations.

Question 10

How are conventional offensive action no DA

Answer 10

• Precise or discriminate use of force.

* Recovery or capture of personnel or materiel.

Question 11

definition of terrorism

Answer 11

The unlawful use of violence or threat of violence, often motivated by religious, political, or other ideological beliefs, to instill fear and coerce governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are usually political.

Question 12

Definition of Counter Terrorism

Answer 12

Actions taken directly against terrorist networks and indirectly to influence and render global and regional environments inhospitable to terrorist networks

Question 13

activities that directly target terrorist networks

Answer 13

Intelligence operations
Hostage or sensitive material recovery
Network and infrastructure attacks

Question 14

how does SF indirectly target terrorist networks

Answer 14

Nonlethal activities to defeat the ideologies or motivations that spawn terrorism by nonlethal means. (FID and others)

Question 15

Definition of counter proliferation (CPWMD)

Answer 15

those actions taken to defeat the threat and/or use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States, our forces, allies, and partners.

Question 16

Major objectives of combating WMD

Answer 16

non proliferation

counter proliferation

Question 17

Definition of security force assistance (SFA)

Answer 17

The Department of Defense activities that contribute to unified action by the U.S. Government to support the development of the capacity and capability of foreign security forces and their supporting institutions.

Question 18

Definition of Foreign Internal Defense

Answer 18

• Participation by civilian and military agencies of a government
• Action programs taken by another government
• Free and protect its society from subversion, lawlessness, insurgency, terrorism, and other threats to its security.

Question 19

hostile environment

Answer 19

host government forces do not have control of the territory and population

Question 20

denied area

Answer 20

An area under enemy or unfriendly control

Question 21

Sensitive

Answer 21

An agency, installation, person, position, document, material, or activity requiring special protection from disclosure that could cause embarrassment, compromise, or threat to the security of the sponsoring power.

Question 22

chemical agent

Answer 22

intended to kill, or injure through physiological effects

Question 23

biological agent

Answer 23

causes disease or deterioration

Question 24

difference between FID and SFA

Answer 24

FID - internal defense and development (IDAD); TAA; deals with population
SFA - Security Sector Reform (SSR); (OTERA); deals with forward security force

Question 25

OTERA

Answer 25

Organize
train
equip
rebuild
advise/assist

Question 26

security sector reform (SSR)

Answer 26

building capabilities (Big T)
Developing capacity (title 10 sec 333)

Question 27

means of Indirect support

Answer 27

• Security Assistance
• Foreign Military Finance Program
• Foreign Military Sales (FMS)
• International Military Education and Training (IMET)
• CT Assistance
• Humanitarian Mine Action Program
• Nonproliferation
• Joint and Multinational Exercises
• Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET)
• Mobile Training Teams (MTT)
• Exchange Programs

Question 28

means of direct support

Answer 28

• Civil-Military Operations
• Populace and Resources Control
• Foreign Humanitarian Assistance
• Nation Assistance
• Support to Civil Administration
• Civil Information Management
• Military Information Support Operations (MISO)
• Military Training to HN Forces
• Logistics Support
• Intelligence and Communication Sharing

Question 29

counterinsurgency

Answer 29

• Comprehensive civilian and military efforts
• Defeat and contain insurgency
• Address its root causes

Question 30

insurgency

Answer 30

The organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify, or challenge political control of a region. Insurgency can also refer to the group itself.

Question 31

context for USG involvement in COIN

Answer 31

assisting an established HN government
as an
adjunct to US major combat operations
US operations in a UGA.

Question 32

How does USG conduct COIN

Answer 32

Indirect support
Direct support without combat operations
combat operations