UW Flashcards
UW definition
Activites conducted to enable a resistance or insurgency to coerce, disrupt, or over throw a government or occupying power, by operating through or with an underground auxiliary and guriella force in a denied area.
7 phases of UW
Preparation Inital contact Infil Organization Build up Employment Transition
7 dynamics of a reistance or insurgency
Ideology Leadership Objectives Environment/geography External support Phasing and timing Organization and operational patterns
Traditional vs irregular warfare
Traditional-violent stuggle between states or coalitions in order to establish dominance
Irregular-violent struggle between states or coalitions and non state actors in order to gain influence of a certain population
SF is what in the big army war machine?
We are shaping operation or supprt roles
Two types of irregular warfare?
Small scale- SF is main effort
Large scale- SF is the supporting/shaping effort
Resistance partner vs surrogate?
Partner- mutually conducted operations with the USG. Influenced not controlled by the USG.
Surrogate-straight up paid by USG it is employed by the USG and controlled by USG elements
Puprose of SF in a large scale conflict?
Prep the environment for introduction of conventional forces
Purpose of SF in small scale conflict?
Main effort, keep USG sognature small
Two types of area Assessments?
Intial-once you arrive in the AO
Principal
What do resistances need most?
Populace support
Why is STR? A good option for the USG
Small footprint potential to handle a problem at the lowest level
5 types of support the resistance?
Against occupying power, against soverign state government
4 ways to resist
Violent nonviolent clandestine overt
Five types of reistance ideology
Reformist Traditionalist Apcolypitc Secessionist Amarchist
