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Guerrila warfare

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Military and paramilitary operations conducted in an enemy-held or denied area by irregular, predominantly indigenous forces

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Intelligence operations

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Variety of intelligence and counterintelligence task that are carried out by intelligence organizations and activities with the intelligence processes

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Sabotage

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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.

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NAR

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Military, diplomatic, and civil efforts to affect the recovery and reintegration of isolated personnel.

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PE

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Umbrella term for activities conducted in forgoing countries to shape or prepare an area for future operations.

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Insurgency

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Organized movement aimed at the overthrow of a constituted government through the use of subversion or armed conflict

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UW

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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

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Resistance

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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.

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Elements of a feasibility assessment

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Feasibility, acceptability, adequacy

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Favorable conditions for a resistance

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Weakened or unconsolidated government or occupying power

Will of the population

Favorable terrain and/or environment

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Dynamics of an insurgency

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  • Leadership
  • Phasing and timing
  • Organization and operational patterns
  • ideology
  • objectives
  • environment and geography
  • external support
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Phases of insurgency

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  1. Latent or incipient
  2. Guerrila warfare
  3. War of movement
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Components of an insurgency

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Underground: intelligence, C2, shadow government
Auxiliary: logistical support and transportation
Guerrilla force: militant arm

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Underground functions

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Intel/counterintelligence
Subversive radio stations
Propaganda 
Special material fabrication (i.e. False ID)
C2 nodes
Shadow government
Clandestine medical facilities
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Auxiliary functions

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Logistics
Transportation 
Labor
Security and early warning
Intel collection
Recruitment
Communications 
Propaganda distribution 
Safe house management
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Area complex

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Clandestine, dispersed network of facilities to support resistance activities in a given area

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Subversion

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

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UW activities

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PE
Subversion
Sabotage
Intelligence operations
NAR
Guerrilla warfare
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Title 10
Title 22
Title 50

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  1. DOD
  2. State department
  3. War and national defense
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How does knowing the Dynamics of an insurgency enable us to conduct UW operations?

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because they provide a framework for planners to analyze insurgencies

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Phases of UW

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  1. PE
  2. Initial Contact
  3. Infil
  4. Organization
  5. Build Up
  6. Employment
  7. Transition
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UW Phase 1 events

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  • 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
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UW Phase 2 events

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  • 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
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UW Phase 3 events

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  • clandestinely infiltrate the JSOA
  • conduct/confirm feasibility assessment
  • establish commo
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UW Phase 4 events

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  • develop report
  • organize, train, and equip resistance cadre
  • develop infrastructure
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UW Phase 5 events

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  • increase intelligence/counterintelligence, and early warning networks
  • expanded recruiting efforts
  • develop and expand underground capabilities
  • expand supply distro and cache network
  • conduct limited combat operations, but emphasis remains on development
  • confidence targets
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UW Phase 6 events

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  • conduct combat operations until link-up with friendly forces or the end of hostilities
  • interdict LOC
  • Attack enemy C2 and commo nodes
  • target rear-area infrastructure and high-payoff targets
  • seize key objectives
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UW Phase 7 events

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-transition to indigenous control, shift to conventional forces, or demobilize

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Anarchists

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destructively eliminate government entirely

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Egalitarian

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impose universal equility

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Tradionalists

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resist change or return to normal

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Pluralists

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break a monopoly on political discourse

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Successionists

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break off some section from the polity

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Reformists

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modify the application of laws and more

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Preservationists

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safeguard valued institutions from change

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Globalists

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provoke supernational reorganization

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Apocalyptic

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act as a catalyst for an envisioned end times

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Utopian

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impose a theoretical vision of man’s perfection

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Commercialists

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facilitate greed through violent illegalities

40
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What are the two cell types and advantages

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  1. Parallel: redundancy

2. cells-in-series: compartmentalization

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What are the ways of conducting UW

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General and Limited War

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