03_Components of an Insurgency

Question 1

Define Guerrilla

Answer 1

Overt military component of a resistance movement or insurgency
Irregular, usually indigenous, actor that conducts paramilitary operations in enemy-help, hostile, or denied territory
Normally operate in covert and overt resistance operations of an insurgency

Question 2

What are some guerrilla TTPs?

Answer 2

Only attacks when he can gain relative superiority
Avoids decisive engagements
Generates and maintains initiative where he has familiarity
Size depends on degree of control over an area, logistics, need

Question 3

Define Auxilliary

Answer 3

The portion of the population that provides active clandestine support to the guerrilla force or the underground

Question 4

What are some functions that an Auxiliary perform?

Answer 4

Logistics procurement/distribution
Labor for special material fabrication
Security/early warning
Intelligence
Recruitment
Communications
Propaganda
Safe House management
Logistics and personnel transport

Question 5

Define Underground

Answer 5

A cellular organization within the resistance movement or insurgency that has the ability, either covert or clandestine, to conduct operations in areas that are inaccessible to guerrillas such as urban areas under the control of local security forces

Question 6

What are some functions that an Underground performs?

Answer 6

Intelligence and counterintelligence
Subversive radio stations
Propaganda
Special material fabrication
Logistics/personnel networks
clandestine medical facilities