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UW Mod C Quiz #2 Flashcards

1
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What activity of UW requires an EXORD

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Preparation of the environment

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2
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Which primary component of UW will be the best choice for political intelligence

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Underground

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3
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What is most important activity of UW

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Subversion

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What is defined as overcoming the target audiences agitation

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Overcoming the Target Audience’s psychological and physical barriers to increase the flow of information by delivering messages that are credible and meaningful.

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General Sabotage

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No need for explosives or other destructive elements. The ability to damage or slow something with natural means

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Strategic Sabotage

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A single event of strategic sabotage may have significant strategic or operational impact disproportionate to the means employed.

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Unconventional assisted recovery

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SOF conduct unilaterally with indigenous or surrogate personnel or with other governmental agencies, employing compartmented tactics, techniques, and procedures. In the conduct of unconventional assisted recovery, SOF may be deployed into a JSOA before strike operations to support recovery operations.

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What type of operation conducts activities aimed at shaping perceptions through information

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MISO

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What forces assists detachments on address the impacts on the local populace

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civil affairs

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When does an ODA conduct UW

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  • on POTUS/ sec def approval
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11
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Blank determines the ability of an ODA to perform a mission –

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feasibility assessment

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12
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During the feasibility assessment what isn’t being assessed-

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Location

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When does the ODA begin the area assessment

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immediately after entry into the JSOA

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14
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What are types of initial contact

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  • Chance

- Higher to lower

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15
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(T or F) PMESII is the analysis approach used to analyze a countries systems to analyze for a mission

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True

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16
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7 phases of UW

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Preparation
Infiltration
Initial contact
Organization
Build-up
Employment
Transition
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17
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Why is UW attractive to US policy Makers?

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Small military footprint
UW is a smaller footprint and look much better to the US on the world stage. And might have better Access and placement.

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Diff between information and intel

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intel is compiled information, information is provided and things earned, intel is collection of information gathered for military reasons.

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19
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Who will conduction political intelligence

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Underground

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What is diff between preparation of Environment in UW and as a principal task?

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Principal task- Shaping for future operations (UW, SR, DA, COIN, CT, etc.). OPE, AFO and IO are three lines of operation to prepare for future operations.
• Activity- UW ​Specific to Coerce, Disrupt or Overthrow. Required an EXORD from the President/Secretary of Defense of the United States or a Presidential finding to conduct UW.

PE conducted as an activity needs an exord.

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21
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How is PE as an activity generally conducted

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low visibility ops (provides a means of operating without advertising activity), clandestine ops (hide the act and the actor) and covert ops (conceal the actor).

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22
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Common places to conduct subversive activities

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  • Schools , Universities
  • Churches, Mosques
  • Rallies, Demonstrations
  • Mass Media, Social Media
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23
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Primary components of subversion

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  • The underground: Is the C2 for the entire subversion network.
  • The auxiliary: propaganda distribution.
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SUBVERSION

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

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UW Definition

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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 guerilla force in a denied area. ATP 3-18.1 digital page
21

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Resistance

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organized effort by some portion of population to resist legally established
government or occupying power to disrupt civil order and stability.

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27
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Insurgency

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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.

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28
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End States of UW

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a. Coerce:
b. Disrupt:
c. Overthrow:

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29
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Components of a resistance or insurgency.

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  • Underground:
  • Auxiliary:
  • Guerrilla Force:
  • Public Component:
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30
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Breakdown of successful efforts per each end state:

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a. 75% of the time coercion works.
b. 53% of the time disrupts works
c. 29% of the time overthrow works

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31
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Resistance generally begins with___

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the desire of individuals to remove intolerable conditions imposed upon them by an
unpopular regime or occupying power.

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32
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Ways to resist

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Violent, nonviolent, Overt, Clandestine

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33
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7 Dynamics of a Resistance.

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a. Leadership
b. Ideology
c. Objectives
d. Environment and Geography
e. External Support
f. Phasing and Timing
g. Organizational and Operational Patterns

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34
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Who established and practiced the phasing and timing dynamic

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Mao Zedong

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35
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What are the 3 phases?

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a. Phase 1
i. Strategic defensive – latent or insipient
b. Phase 2
i. Strategic stalemate – guerilla warfare
c. Phase 3
i. Strategic offensive. – war of movement

36
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Which component is always present and is the first component of an insurgency:

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Underground

37
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cells in series-

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provide a division of labor

38
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Parallel Cells –

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provide the overall organization operational redundancy.

39
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Area command

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(Overt, known to all) is the largest territorial resistance organization commanded by a senior resistance
leader inside a defined resistance area of operation.

40
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Area complex

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is a (clandestine) dispersed network of facilities to support resistance activities in a
given area designed to achieve security, control, dispersion, and flexibility.
41
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Area complex must include:

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  1. security system
  2. guerilla base
  3. communications
  4. logistics
  5. medical facilities
  6. a series of networks capable of moving personnel and supplies.
42
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Shadow government

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consists of all organizations and key individuals that provide goods or services that
parallel or supplant the functions and control of the enemy state government.

43
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Shadow government individuals can come from

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any of the 4 primary components

44
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Shadow government eventually___

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Takes the place of the existing government ideally the shadow
government can perform normal governmental functions in a clandestine manner and
synchronize those functions with the resistance movement.

45
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A Government in exile is

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a government displaced from its country of origin yet remains recognized as a
legitimate sovereign authority.

46
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What are the two types of planned/unilateral logistics?

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  1. Accompanying-what ODA brought during INFIL.

2. External- supplies delivered from outside by the sponsor (automatic, on-call, emergency)

47
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What are the 3 types of external logistics?

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  1. automatic-pre-planned
  2. on-call- items with unpredictable consumption
  3. emergency- mission essential to restore capabilities or ensure survival
48
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Two types of warfare recognized the us government

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Irregular and traditional

49
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What is an STR?

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  • Involves the synchronized planning and execution of a series of complex activities requiring close and ongoing collaboration across USG departments and agencies.
  • Can be the main or supporting effort within a comprehensive USG campaign
  • goal may be to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow an adversary government/occupying power as part of a broad DIMEFIL approach.
50
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What are the risk considerations of UW as a strategic option?

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  1. Diplomatic or political risk
  2. Risk to force/risk to mission
  3. Risk of inaction on part of USG
  4. Time required to train and develop forces
51
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Why STR (UW) as a Policy Option?

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-UW provides a lower military footprint and signature to the policy makers compared to large-
scale military forces.
-UW is a strategic policy option main effort (small scale UW) that can be discreetly targeted on
the most high-stakes problems with specifically selected, prepared, and supported forces.
-UW is an attractive strategic policy option as a global economy-of-force effort in secondary
theaters, or a strategic and operational military option as a supporting line of effort to larger
joint force campaigns (large scale UW).

52
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Is STR only using a national instrument power (T/ F)?

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False

53
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Military participation in STR will involve ___

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a mixture of conventional forces and special operations and it
will represent varying mixes of traditional and irregular warfare.

54
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How is UW conducted?

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a. Large scale – diMe (Main effort)

b. Small scale – DImE (supporting effort)

55
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What is the difference between a resistance partner and a surrogate?

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Resistance Partner- A resistance partner is a partner conducting resistance with whom
the United States Government mutually establishes agreements to cooperate for some
specified time in pursuit of mutually supporting specific objectives. (influenced not
commanded or controlled)
-A surrogate-(someone who acts on the behalf of another) is an employee or subordinate that an employer commands and
controls and for whose actions the employer bears some legal and moral
responsibility

56
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What is required for an operation to be considered STR?

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must have at least 1 resistance partner

57
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What are some things to look at when assessing a resistance?

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-Insight into grievances, goals, worldview, and ideology of the resistance—and an
assessment of its capabilities for political action, internal governance, and military
-assess the resistance potential in the area
-assess the group’s political objectives, capabilities, and possible limitations in its ability to generate support in the environment
-assess which international partners are willing to participate in the STR campaign and the extent of their participation

58
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Plan the Support to Resistance

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Elements of the USG will have the necessary authorities to assess resistance potential.
However A Presidential decision is necessary prior to initiating assistance efforts. Particularly
in providing aid to an armed resistance group.

59
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What activity of UW requires an EXORD

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a. preparation of the environment

b. providing aid to an armed resistance group

60
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What are the 1st four (1-4) principals of resistance?

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  1. efforts by individuals to resist, oppose, or overthrow oppressor
  2. fundamentally a political activity
  3. “will to resist” for some members
  4. subversion of opponent strength in all domains through wide range of activities
61
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What are the 2nd four (5-8) principles of resistance?

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  1. inhabit range of individual and group passive, noncooperation, and demonstration nonviolent activities through a wide range and scale of violent activities
  2. typically involve combination of overt, low-visibility, clandestine, and covert methods
  3. Requirement to conduct certain resistance activities clandestinely is a function of both opponent’s ability to repress and the nature of the resistance activity
  4. typically must begin with small-scale clandestine organization and sporadic activity to survive
62
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What are the 3rd four (9-12) principles of resistance?

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  1. strategy, methods, organization, narrative, and leadership style are subordinate to resistance objectives
  2. Every instance will have unique characteristics based on its underlying social, economic, cultural, historical, and political circumstances
  3. not all persons useful to a resistance are members of that resistance, witting to its true objectives, or even aware of its existence.
  4. Most successful resistance efforts require some level of populare support
63
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What are the two types of assessments?

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a. Initial- items essential to ODA immediately following Infiltration
b. Principal- continuous or on-going assessment that supports planning and operations for subsequent activities in the JSOA

64
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What environments are assessments conducted?

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  1. Urban

2. Rural

65
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Why is it important to why we understand policy UW and its regard to USSOCOM?

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  1. Congressional mandate to prepare for UW
  2. Execute UW when ordered
    • The U.S. Congress directs DOD to maintain a capability for UW in 10 USC 167.
    • DOD designates USSOCOM as the responsible DOD command for UW.
    • USSOCOM designates USASOC as the lead service component for UW doctrine, organization,
    training, materiel, leadership and education, personnel, and facilities
    • USASOC provides forces selected, trained, and equipped to conduct UW to GCCs. U.S. Army SF
    Soldiers are specifically selected, trained, and educated to shape foreign, political, and military
    environments by working with and through host nations, regional partners, and indigenous
    populations.
    • UW is the primary mission that most distinguishes SF
66
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How does policy of UW apply to USSOCOM?

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  • The SF conduct of UW has two basic contexts: first, the congressional mandate to prepare for it, and
    second, when an order is given to execute it.
  • DOD designates USSOCOM as the responsible DOD command for UW.
67
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What are the 2 roles the SF BN has during the feasibility assessment?

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  • support and guide ODA efforts
68
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What is the ODA determining during the feasibility assessment process?

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  • Mission requirements, TTPs, IDs interagency coordination

- Required resources, training needs, augmentation needs

69
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What are the feasibility assessment outcomes?

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  1. Affirmative- trained, equipped, and routinely supported
  2. Conditional- can do it, but some conditions and requirements exist
  3. Negative- We cannot accomplish the mission because of clearly stated reason
70
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When does preparation phase begin?

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  • receipt of mission from potus or sec def approval to begin UW
    campaign.
71
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What are some additional forces needed during phase 1?

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CA and MISO

72
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PMESII means what?

A
  • political
  • military
  • economic
  • social
  • infrastructure
  • information
73
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What are some additional forces needed during phase 3?

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OGA, MISO, CA

74
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what are the activities in phase 5?

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  • Underground- expand persistent and intrusive R/S recon surveillance
  • Auxiliary- expand persistent and intrusive R/S
  • Guerilla- build size, confidence targets
75
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What are the 7 phases of UW?

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  1. Preparation
  2. Infiltration
  3. Initial Contact
  4. Organization
  5. Build-up
  6. Employment
  7. Transition
76
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What are the 2 ways employment methods are done?

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  • Violent (combat)

- Non-lethal (subversion)

77
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What are the potential end-states for phase 7?

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  • Coerce
  • Disrupt
  • Overthrow
78
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6 activities of UW?

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a. Preparation of environment
b. Intelligence operation
c. Unconventional assisted recovery
d. Guerilla warfare
e. Sabotage
f. Subversion

79
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Diff between information and intel?

A
  • Intel is compiled information, information is provided and

things earned, intel is collection of information gathered for military reasons.

80
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Who will conduction political intelligence?

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  • Underground
81
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What are the component activities in phase 6-Employment?

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  • Underground- intelligence collection and subversion
  • Auxiliary- move personnel / supplies and early warning
  • Guerilla- target interdiction, high pay off targets, seizing key objectives, attacking lines of
    communication (heavily used)
82
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What are the key events of phase 7-Transition?

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  • Transition to FID
  • Reach end state of coerce, disrupt or overthrow
  • Overthrow: Demobilize Resistance/ Insurgency or transition into security/police force
  • Coerce/Disrupt: cease operations, go dormant or hand off to other agencies or foreign powers
83
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What is the difference between PE as a prinicpal task vs Activity?

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-(Principle task)- Shaping for future operations (UW, SR, DA, COIN, CT, etc.). OPE, AFO
and IO are three lines of operation to prepare for future operations.
-(Activity)- Specific to Coerce, Disrupt or Overthrow. Required an EXORD from
the President/Secretary of Defense of the United States or a Presidential finding to
conduct UW.

84
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What are the ways to conduct PE?

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  • (Low Visibility): Provides a means of operating without actively advertising the
    efforts. Operations can be conducted overtly, but are not acknowledged.
  • (Clandestine Operations): Act unknown, Actor unknown. Conceals the
    direct linkage to the support.
  • (Covert Operation): Act known, Actor Unknown. Emphasis is placed on
    concealment of the sponsor identity rather than on concealment of the
    operation.
85
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What is subversion?

A

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

86
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What is agitation as it pertains to information activities-

A

Overcoming the Target Audience’s psychological and physical barriers to increase the
flow of information by delivering messages that are credible and meaningful.

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