Terminology Flashcards
Unconventional Warfare
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.
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.
Unconventional Warfare
Resistance Movement
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.
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.
Resistance Movement
Coerce
Persuade (and unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats.
Persuade (and unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats.
Coerce
Disrupt
Interrupt (and event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem.
Interrupt (and event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem.
Disrupt
Operational Environment
A composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of capabilities and bear on the decisions of the commander.
A composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of capabilities and bear on the decisions of the commander.
Operational Environment
Overthrow
Inherit political control over a contested area.
Inherit political control over a contested area.
Overthrow
Subversion
Actions designed to undermine the military, economic, psychological, or political strength or moral of a governing authority.
Actions designed to undermine the military, economic, psychological, or political strength or moral of a governing authority.
Subversion
Area Complex
Clandestine dispersed network to support resistance activities in an area
Clandestine dispersed network to support resistance activities in an area
Area Complex
Insurgency
Organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify, or change political control of a region. Insurgency can also refer to the group itself.
Organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify, or change political control of a region. Insurgency can also refer to the group itself.
Insurgency
Target Audience
An individual or group selected for influence
An individual or group selected for influence
Target Audience
Area Command
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
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
Area Command
Sabotage
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
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
Sabotage
