Uw Flashcards
Guerrila warfare
Military and paramilitary operations conducted in an enemy-held or denied area by irregular, predominantly indigenous forces
Intelligence operations
Variety of intelligence and counterintelligence task that are carried out by intelligence organizations and activities with the intelligence processes
Sabotage
An act or acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense or war material, premises, or utilities, to include human and natural resources.
NAR
Military, diplomatic, and civil efforts to affect the recovery and reintegration of isolated personnel.
PE
Umbrella term for activities conducted in forgoing countries to shape or prepare an area for future operations.
Insurgency
Organized movement aimed at the overthrow of a constituted government through the use of subversion or armed conflict
UW
Actions taken to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow a government or occupying power through or with an underground, auxiliary, and guerrilla force in a denied area
Resistance
An 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.
Elements of a feasibility assessment
Feasibility, acceptability, adequacy
Favorable conditions for a resistance
Weakened or unconsolidated government or occupying power
Will of the population
Favorable terrain and/or environment
Dynamics of an insurgency
- Leadership
- Phasing and timing
- Organization and operational patterns
- ideology
- objectives
- environment and geography
- external support
Phases of insurgency
- Latent or incipient
- Guerrila warfare
- War of movement
Components of an insurgency
Underground: intelligence, C2, shadow government
Auxiliary: logistical support and transportation
Guerrilla force: militant arm
Underground functions
Intel/counterintelligence Subversive radio stations Propaganda Special material fabrication (i.e. False ID) C2 nodes Shadow government Clandestine medical facilities
Auxiliary functions
Logistics Transportation Labor Security and early warning Intel collection Recruitment Communications Propaganda distribution Safe house management
Area complex
Clandestine, dispersed network of facilities to support resistance activities in a given area
Subversion
Actions designed to undermine the military, economic, and psychological or political strength or morale of a governing authority
UW activities
PE Subversion Sabotage Intelligence operations NAR Guerrilla warfare
Title 10
Title 22
Title 50
- DOD
- State department
- War and national defense
How does knowing the Dynamics of an insurgency enable us to conduct UW operations?
because they provide a framework for planners to analyze insurgencies
Phases of UW
- PE
- Initial Contact
- Infil
- Organization
- Build Up
- Employment
- Transition
UW Phase 1 events
- Intelligence preparation of the operational area
- Conduct continual area assessments
- Design UW campaign
- ID and gain access to resistance assets
- conduct psychological preparation to unify population and prepare them to accept U.S. support
UW Phase 2 events
- coordinate reception of the pilot team
- may exfil resistance representative to brief pilot team and possibly accompany during infil
- detailed Operational Environment and Human Terrain analysis
UW Phase 3 events
- clandestinely infiltrate the JSOA
- conduct/confirm feasibility assessment
- establish commo
