Test Prep Flashcards
19 Steps of Mission Analysis
- Analyze higher order
- Perform initial IPB
- Determine specified, implied, essential tasks
- Review assets/ID resource shortfalls
- Determine Constraints
- ID critical facts and develop assumptions
- Begin composite risk management
- Develop initial CCIR and EEFI
- Develop initial R&S sync tools
- Develop initial R&S plan
- Update plan for use of time
- Develop initial themes and messages
- Develop proposed problem statement
- Develop proposed mission statement
- Present mission analysis briefing
- Develop initial commander’s intent
- Develop initial planning guidance
- Develop COA evaluation criteria
- Issue a WARNO
9 SF Principle Tasks
Unconventional Warfare Foreign Internal Defense Counterinsurgency Security Force Assistance Special Reconnaissance Direct Action Counterterrorism Counterproliferation Preparation of the Environment
Difference between COA Screening Criteria and COA Evaluation Criteria
COA Screening Criteria: Assesses validity of each COA at the beginning of COA Development based on:
- Feasible
- Acceptable
- Suitable
- Distinguishable
- Complete
COA Evaluation Criteria: Pertains to mission and are drawn from Commander’s guidance and critical mission factors. Used during Wargaming to select the best COA for the mission
What makes Special Reconnaissance Special?
- Employs resources and techniques not normally found in conventional units
- Conducted in hostile, denied or politically sensitive areas
- Collect or verify information of strategic importance or significance
Criteria to execute DA
Mission appropriate for SF?
Does the mission support GCC campaign plan?
Is the mission operationally feasible?
Are the required resources available?
Does the expected outcome justify the risk?
Steps to prepare for engagement with media
a. Before you go somewhere, find out who you might have to talk to, who they work for, what their biases are, and the history of where you’re going
b. Seek out your Group PAO to get what the party line is prior to going anywhere
c. Rehearse chance engagements
d. Request credentials and POC information
e. Don’t speculate; don’t lie; never repeat back what the media says to you
f. If you don’t know, say so
g. Ask for more time/a chance to gather your thoughts
Define 3 Pillars of Preparation of the Environment
Operational Preparation of the Environment
-Operational preparation of the environment activities include passive observation, area familiarization, site surveys, mapping the information environment, military source operations, developing nonconventional assisted recovery capabilities, use of couriers, developing safe houses and assembly areas, positioning transportation assets, and cache emplacement and recovery
Advance Force Operations
-Advanced force operations encompass many operational preparation of the environment activities, but they are intended to prepare for near-term direct action. Advanced force operations include close target reconnaissance; tagging, tracking, and locating; reception, staging, onward movement, and integration of forces; infrastructure development; and terminal guidance.
Intelligence Operations
-human intelligence activities (including military source operations); counterintelligence activities; airborne, maritime, and ground-based signals intelligence; tagging, tracking, and locating; and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Intelligence operations complement operational preparation of the environment and advanced force operations in the overall preparation of the environment
Spectrum of Surgical Strike and Special Warfare
Surgical Strike -Direct Action -Special Reconnaissance -Counterterrorism -Counterproliferation Special Warfare -Unconventional Warfare -Foreign Internal Defense -Counterinsurgency -Security Force Assistance
Definition of UW
activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow a government or occupying power by operating through or with an underground, auxiliary, and guerrilla force in a denied area
7 Phases of UW
Preparation Initial Contact Infiltration Organization Buildup Employment Transition
Components of UW
Guerillas
Underground
Auxiliary
Dynamics of an Insurgency
Leadership Ideology Objectives Environment/Geography External Support Phasing and Timing Organizational and Operational Patterns
Additional Elements of an Insurgency
Leadership and C2
-Generally performed by the Guerrilla or Underground component
Government in Exile
-Displaced government that is still recognized as legitimate. Area Command still reports to gov in exile.
Shadow Government
-Organization the underground forms in occupied territory that performs normal clandestine government functions and discredits acting government.
Area Command
-Resistance leadership that directs and controls all resistance activities in a given region
Subversion vs. Sabotage
Subversion- Actions designed to undermine the military, economic, psychological, or political strength or morale of a governing authority.
Sabotage- Deliberately damaging or destroying a specific object
Covert vs. Clandestine
Covert- An operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor
Clandestine- An operation sponsored or conducted by governmental departments or agencies in such a way as to assure secrecy or concealment (of the operation).
How does a SOTF Organize Itself Forward
OPCEN (S2, S3)
SUPCEN (4, 8)
SIGCEN (6, SIGDET)
SOCCE vs. SFLE
SOCCE- Liaison between JSOTF Commander and AOB Commander to communicate intent/info
SFLE- Liaison between US conventional forces and HN or multinational forces
What do you not consider in FID planning?
Do not plan COAs based on enemy, as you are planning for training a HN force
Composite Risk Management types and steps
Risk to Mission/Risk to Force
- ID significant tactical and accident hazards.
- Assess hazards for probability, effect and risk level.
- Develop controls, determine residual risk, decide.
- Implement controls.
- Supervise and evaluate.
Elements of Embassy Country Team
Military Liaison Officer (MLO) Regional Security Officer (RSO) Government Support Office (GSO) Chief of Station (CoS) Chief of Mission (CoM, Ambassador) Defense Attaché (DATT)
Steps of MDMP
Receipt of Mission Mission Analysis COA Development COA Analysis COA Comparison COA Approval Orders Production
Big 4 Duties and Responsibilities during COA Development
b. 18A: Gives initial planning guidance, develops DECMAT criteria and weight, refrains from becoming focused on one particular COA, selects and or modifies COAs for continued analysis and war-gaming, identifies COA to move into detailed planning
c. 180A: Acts as the facilitator during war-gaming, identifies critical events in the operation and lists them in sequence, consolidates war-gaming results and presents them to the commander, assists commander in identifying COA to move into detailed planning
d. 18Z: Assists commander in identifying COA to move into detailed planning and enforces timeline for COA development
e. 18F: Serves as the primary threat force during war-gaming, helps identify weaknesses in COAs from the enemy’s perspective, should not be included as a part of a COA team
Insurgent Support Networks
logistics transportation medical communication information and propaganda intel and counterintel finance recruitment
Low Vis-Operations
Sensitive operations wherein the diplomatic-military restrictions inherent in covert and clandestine operations are either not necessary or not feasible; actions taken as required to limit exposure of those involved and/or their activities and with the knowledge that the action and/or sponsorship of the operation may preclude plausible denial by the initiating power.
Conditions for FID Mission
i. Does the internal disorder pose a significant threat to US national interests?
ii. Did the country request U.S. support?
iii. Are they capable of effectively using U.S. assistance?
iv. What type of support are we providing? (indirect, direct, or combat operations)
