Terminology Flashcards

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Unconventional Warfare

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Activities conducted to enable a resistance force or insurgency to coerce, disrupt or overthrow a government or occupying power, by operating through or with an underground, auxillary and guerrilla force in a denied area.

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Activities conducted to enable a resistance force or insurgency to coerce, disrupt or overthrow a government or occupying power, by operating through or with an underground, auxillary and guerrilla force in a denied area.

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Unconventional Warfare

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Resistance Movement

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Organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to resist the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability.

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Organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to resist the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability.

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Resistance Movement

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Coerce

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Persuade (and unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats.

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Persuade (and unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats.

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Coerce

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Disrupt

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Interrupt (and event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem.

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Interrupt (and event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem.

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Disrupt

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Operational Environment

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A composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of capabilities and bear on the decisions of the commander.

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A composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of capabilities and bear on the decisions of the commander.

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Operational Environment

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Overthrow

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Inherit political control over a contested area.

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Inherit political control over a contested area.

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Overthrow

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Subversion

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Actions designed to undermine the military, economic, psychological, or political strength or moral of a governing authority.

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Actions designed to undermine the military, economic, psychological, or political strength or moral of a governing authority.

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Subversion

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Area Complex

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Clandestine dispersed network to support resistance activities in an area

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Clandestine dispersed network to support resistance activities in an area

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Area Complex

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Insurgency

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

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

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Insurgency

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Target Audience

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An individual or group selected for influence

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An individual or group selected for influence

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Target Audience

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Area Command

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Is a combined command structure composed by leaders of the Auxiliary, Underground, Guerrilla Force and SF members. The area command intends to stay small and mobile, and to work with centralized planning and decentralized executions

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Is a combined command structure composed by leaders of the Auxiliary, Underground, Guerrilla Force and SF members. The area command intends to stay small and mobile, and to work with centralized planning and decentralized executions

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Area Command

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Sabotage

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Act with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of a country by willfully injuring or destroying or attempting to injure or destroy, any national defense or war material, premises, or utilities, to include human and natural resources

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Act with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of a country by willfully injuring or destroying or attempting to injure or destroy, any national defense or war material, premises, or utilities, to include human and natural resources

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Sabotage