UW

Question 1

Unconventional warfare definition

Answer 1

Activities conducted to enable of resistance movement or insurgency took coerce disrupt or overthrow a government or occupying power by operating by, with, or through an underground, auxiliary and guerrilla force in a denied area

Question 2

Auxiliary responsibilities

Answer 2

Logistics, 
safe house, 
transportation, 
early warning, 
recruitment, 
propaganda distribution

Question 3

Underground responsibilities

Answer 3

Propaganda/materials fabrication, personnel and logistics,
medical,
urban sabotage,
intelligence operations

Question 4

Guerrilla force

Answer 4

Operate in a hostile territory, can be independent, overt military component of insurgency

Question 5

Types of supply

Answer 5

Accompanying, external

Question 6

Unconventional warfare activities

Answer 6

Subversion, 
sabotage, 
non-conventional assisted recovery, 
guerrilla warfare, 
Intel operations, 
preparation of the environment

Question 7

Primary components

Answer 7

Underground, auxiliary, guerrilla force

Question 8

Three phases of insurgency

Answer 8

1 latent or incipient (strategic defense)

2 guerrilla warfare (strategic stalemate)

3 war of movement ( strategic offensive)

Question 9

Seven phases of unconventional warfare

Answer 9

Preparation 
initial contact 
infiltration 
organization 
build up 
employment 
transition

Question 10

Strategic objectives

Answer 10

Anarchist 
egalitarian 
traditionalist
apocalyptic
utopian
pluralist
secessionist
reformist 
preservationist 
globalist 
commercialist

Question 11

Types of cells

Answer 11

Parallel cells- possess redundancy and vetting

Cell and series- creates division of labor and compartmentalization

Question 12

Dynamics of a successful insurgency

Answer 12

Leadership 
ideology 
objectives 
environment and geography 
external support 
phasing and timing

Question 13

Criteria for US sponsorship of unconventional warfare

Answer 13

Feasibility
adequacy
Acceptability

Question 14

Area complex

Answer 14

A clandestine dispersed network of facilities to support resistance activities in a given area

Question 15

Area command

Answer 15

The regular organizational structure established within an unconventional war fare operation area to command and control a regular forces advised by Army special forces. Denotes resistance leadership

Question 16

Define Insurgency

Answer 16

The organized use of subversion and violence by a group or movement that seeks to overthrow or force change of a governing authority. Insurgency can also refer to the group itself. (JP 3-24)

Question 17

Define Resistance Movement:

Answer 17

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 (JP 3-05)