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1
Q 
The following activities fall under which UW activity?
Tactical Intel
support of sabotage 
Scientific or military secrets
IPB
A

Intelligence operations

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List 3 examples of actions during phase IV of UW?

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Develop mutual objectives 
Build rapport
Develop cadre
Compartmentalize guerrillas, aux, underground 
ID strengths and weaknesses 
Continued assessment
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3
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List a function conducted by the guerrillas

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Overt military component

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The following actions fall under which UW activity?

  • Recovery of isolated persons by SOF
  • UW air, ground, maritime forces
  • OGAs
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Non-conventional Assisted Recovery

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List 3 examples of actions during Phase VII of UW?

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  • change from UW to FID focus
  • demobilize resistance force / transition into police / security force
  • partner Force goes dormant or handed off to other agencies or foreign powers
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What is the objective (dynamic) of a Traditionalist?

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Resist change and return to the perceived norm

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Which objective (dynamic) attempts to “impose universal equality”?

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Egalitarian

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Who’s responsible for conducting sabotage activities?

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Underground

Guerrillas

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What are the phases of UW?

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Latent or Incipient Phase
Guerrilla War Phase
War of Movement Phase

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List 2 functions conducted by the Underground

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  • operations inaccessible to the guerrillas
  • forms a shadow government
  • subversion, urban sabotage, intelligence / counterintelligence
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What is the objective (dynamic) of a Utopian?

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Impose theoretical vision of man’s perfection

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Describe how an organization arranged as PARALLEL CELLS operates

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  • Two cells have the same assignment
  • each is unaware of the other’s presence or mission
  • REDUNDANCY
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List 3 examples of actions during Phase VI of UW

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  • expanded scope of operations
  • synchronize attacks for D-Day in support of Coalition forces
  • continue guerrilla warfare and subversion
  • interdiction of MISO operations
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What is phase IV of UW?

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Organization

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What is the desired effect from sabotage?

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  • Increase enemy’s expenditure of money, time, manpower

- hurt morale

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16
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What is Phase I of UW?

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Preparation

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The following actions fall under which UW activity?

  • most important activity
  • conducted over a long period of time
  • tactical applications
  • information activities with MISO
  • manipulation of crowds, riots, and demonstrations
A

Subversion

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Define Unconventional Warfare

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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.

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List 3 examples of actions during Phase III of UW

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  • Pilot team infiltrates
  • feasibility assessment confirmation / completion
  • ODAs infiltrate, link up with partner force, and conduct operational assessments
  • train cadre (outside OE) send back to OE
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What is Phase II of UW?

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Initial Contact

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List functions conducted by the Auxiliary

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  • logistics
  • safe house security
  • transportation
  • early warning
  • recruitment
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22
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What objective (dynamic) focuses on “destructively eliminate government entirely”?

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Anarchist

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What is the Main Effort in Large Scale UW?

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The military, UW is a shaping Effort

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List 3 examples of actions during Phase II of UW?

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  • assess insurgency objectives align with US interests
  • pilot team makes contact with resistance
  • pilot team conducts detailed area analysis (human terrain)
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List the dynamics of an insurgency

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  • Leadership
  • Ideology
  • Objectives
  • Environment or Geography
  • External Support
  • Phasing and Timing
  • Organizational and Operational Patterns
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What is Phase V of UW?

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Build up

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What are examples of subversion? (Tactical Level)

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  • manipulation of crowds, riots, demonstrations

- information activities with MISO

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What is Phase III of UW?

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Infiltration

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29
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List 3 examples of action during Phase V of UW?

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  • expand and improve clandestine infrastructure
  • confidence targets
  • define enemy COG/vulnerabilities
  • prep for Coalition D-Day
  • US/indigenous Force agree on support plan for UW campaign (designate targets)
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30
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What is the objective (dynamic) of a Pluralist?

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Break monopoly on political discourse

31
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Define Insurgency

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A group that achieves aims through strategy of armed conflict and subversion against an indigenous or occupying power

32
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What is the difference between Unconventional Assisted Recovery and Non-conventional Assisted Recovery?

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UAR is led by SOF personnel, UW ground and maritime forces or OGA

33
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What purpose do Cells in Parallel serve?

A

Redundancy

34
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In which phase of an insurgency would confidence targets be attacked?

A

Guerrilla Warfare

35
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Why is it important to identify an insurgency’s dynamic in a COIN environment?

A

To combat the insurgency

36
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What is the criteria for US sponsorship?

A
  • feasibility
  • adequacy
  • acceptability
37
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What are the components of an insurgency?

A

Underground
auxiliary
Guerrilla force

38
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The Area Complex represents the what?

A

Insurgent’s Area of Operation

39
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What is the Main Effort in small scale UW?

A

UW (D,I,E)

40
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What is Phase VI of UW?

A

Employment

41
Q

The following actions fall under which UW activity?

  • does not usually get in decisive engagements
  • support of UW campaign
  • assist conventional forces engaged in combat
A

Guerrilla Warfare

42
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What does JIIM stand for?

A

Joint
Interagency
Inter-governmental
Multinational

43
Q

What are the categories of supply in a UW campaign?

A
  • Accompanying Supply

- External Supply

44
Q

_________is a clandestine, dispersed network or facility to support resistance activities in a given area.

A

Area Complex

45
Q

What is the strategic objective of a Secessionists?

A

Break off some section from the polity

46
Q

_________ is a cellular structure that provides two entities conducting the same task but unaware of each other’s actions.

A

Parallel cells

47
Q

What is the strategic objective of a Commercialist?

A

Facilitate greed through violent illegalities

48
Q

What is the irregular organizational structure established within a UW operational area to command and control irregular forces advised by SF?

A

Area Command

49
Q

What actions are conducted in support of guerrilla warfare?

A
  • raid
  • ambush
  • interdiction
  • support of airborne operations
  • reconnaissance
  • rear area security
50
Q

How do we conduct Intelligence Support of Sabotage?

A
  • Reconnaissance

- pattern of life collection

51
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Describe how an organization arranged as “cells in series” operates.

A
  • division of labor to carry out functions

- such as the manufacturing of weapons, supply, escape and evasion, propaganda, etc)

52
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Who conducts Political Intelligence?

A

Underground

53
Q

In which ways does the US conduct UW?

A

Large Scale

Small Scale

54
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Why is it important to identify the dynamic of an insurgency?

A

To support the insurgency

55
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What is the objective (dynamic) of an Apocalyptic?

A

Act as a catalyst for an envisioned end of times

56
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Define Resistance Movement

A

Unique form of insurgency focused on removal of an occupying power by planners and is defined as an organized effort by some portion of civil population of a country to resist the legally established government or occupying power

57
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What are some additional forces utilized during Phase II and how are they utilized?

A

MISO

CA

58
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Why is ideology important to an insurgency?

A

Serves as a rallying call for all members

Unify the divergent interests and goals

59
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What is the objective (dynamic) of a Globalist?

A

Provoke Supranational reorganization

60
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What else is included in the Environment and Geography other than physical terrain?

A

Demographics

61
Q

Where do insurgents tend to find external support?

A
  • criminal organizations

- foreign powers

62
Q

List 3 examples of actions during Phase I of UW

A
  • POTUS/SecDef EXORD approval
  • insurgency/resistance/population prepared to conduct/support UW
  • information operations against specific audiences
  • interagency determines goals, capabilities, liabilities of insurgency/resistance
  • IPB
  • feasibility of UW
63
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What is the objective (dynamic) of a Reformist?

A

Modify the application of laws and morals

64
Q

The following actions fall under which UW activity?

  • conducted as low visibility, clandestine, covert operation
  • enable an insurgency to achieve desired end state (coerce, disrupt, overthrow)
A

Preparation of the Environment

65
Q

In which phase of an insurgency would you infiltrate key government organizations and civilian groups?

A

Latent / Incipient Phase

66
Q

The following actions fall under which UW activity?

  • ability to damage or slow something down with natural means
  • single event at strategic level with significant impact
A

Sabotage

67
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Which phase of UW incurs the most risk?

A

Infiltrarion

68
Q

In which phase of an insurgency would you collapse the government?

A

War of movement

69
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What is the objective (dynamic) of a Preservationist?

A

Safeguard valued institutions from change

70
Q

What is Phase VII of UW?

A

Transition

71
Q

Which phase is the most critical for successful insurrection?

A

Organization

72
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What are the activities of UW?

A
  • preparation of the Environment
  • subversion
  • sabotage
  • intelligence operations
  • non-conventional assisted recovery
  • guerrilla warfare
73
Q

_______ is a cellular structure which provides a division of labor for underground and auxiliary tasks.

A

Cells in series

74
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What is the recovery of isolated person, by SOF, UW air, ground, and maritime forces; and OGAs specifically trained and interfaced with or employment of indigenous or surrogate personnel called?

A

Non conventional Assisted Recovery

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