Tactical Flashcards
9 principle tasks of SF
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)
Definition of PE
- Umbrella term for operations and activities
- Special Operations Forces
- Develop an environment
- Potential future special operations
activities of PE
Operational PE (OPE) Advanced Force Ops (AFO) Intelligence Ops (Intel ops)
In what ways does SF conduct PE
Covert Ops
Low Vis Ops
Clandestine Ops
Definition of SR
• 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.
difference between recon and surveillance
Recon is a mission, Surveillance is a systematic observation
What makes it Special Recon
Unique insertion capabilities
Regional expertise
Environmental skills
Define DA
- Short-duration strikes and other small-scale offensive
- Conducted as a special operation
- Hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments
- Employ specialized military capabilities
Types of Ops in DA
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.
How are conventional offensive action no DA
- Precise or discriminate use of force.
* Recovery or capture of personnel or materiel.
definition of terrorism
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.
Definition of Counter Terrorism
Actions taken directly against terrorist networks and indirectly to influence and render global and regional environments inhospitable to terrorist networks
activities that directly target terrorist networks
Intelligence operations
Hostage or sensitive material recovery
Network and infrastructure attacks
how does SF indirectly target terrorist networks
Nonlethal activities to defeat the ideologies or motivations that spawn terrorism by nonlethal means. (FID and others)
Definition of counter proliferation (CPWMD)
those actions taken to defeat the threat and/or use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States, our forces, allies, and partners.
Major objectives of combating WMD
non proliferation
counter proliferation
Definition of security force assistance (SFA)
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.
Definition of Foreign Internal Defense
- 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.
hostile environment
host government forces do not have control of the territory and population
denied area
An area under enemy or unfriendly control
Sensitive
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.
chemical agent
intended to kill, or injure through physiological effects
biological agent
causes disease or deterioration
difference between FID and SFA
FID - internal defense and development (IDAD); TAA; deals with population
SFA - Security Sector Reform (SSR); (OTERA); deals with forward security force
OTERA
Organize train equip rebuild advise/assist
security sector reform (SSR)
building capabilities (Big T) Developing capacity (title 10 sec 333)
means of Indirect support
- 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
means of direct support
- 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
counterinsurgency
- Comprehensive civilian and military efforts
- Defeat and contain insurgency
- Address its root causes
insurgency
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.
context for USG involvement in COIN
assisting an established HN government
as an
adjunct to US major combat operations
US operations in a UGA.
How does USG conduct COIN
Indirect support
Direct support without combat operations
combat operations
