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What are the core activities of UW?

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  • Preparation of the Environment
  • Intelligence Operations
  • Guerrilla Warfare
  • Personnel Recovery
  • Subversion
  • Sabotage
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Draw an org chart for a notional JTF.

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. JTF |JFLCC JFSOCC JFMCC JFACC
: | :
: SOJTF :
: | :
: SMU JSOTF JSOC SOLE
: |
SOCCE SOTF SOTF SOTF

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What is the difference between prescriptive and descriptive doctrine? Give an example of each.

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Procedures are prescriptive and have a series of steps, such as MEDEVAC 9-Line. Tactics and techniques are descriptive and require judgment in application, such as crossing a linear danger area.

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What do effective narratives accomplish?

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They craft or support a believable story and lay out an actionable plan for those who encounter it.

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Identify and describe the three frames.

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  • Diagnostic Frame: contains a description of the problem and identification of the victims.
  • Prognostic Frame: articulates a proposed solution to the problem, possibly including a plan of attack and a strategy for carrying out that plan.
  • Motivational Frame: provides a rationale for engaging in collective action and involves the development of an appropriate vocabulary to mobilize individuals.
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Draw the org chart for DOD from POTUS to Combatant Commands.

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What are the key efforts to support resistance?

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  • Enable Political Activities
  • Shape the Information Environment
  • Provide Material and Nonmaterial Assistance
  • Conduct Military and Paramilitation Operations
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What is an Internal Defense and Development strategy?

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The full range of measures taken by a nation to promote its growth and to protect itself from subversion, lawlessness, and insurgency is their IDAD

Focuses on building viable institutions (political, military, economic, social) that respond to the needs of society

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What are the four independent functions to prevent or counter internal threats of an IDAD strategy?

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  • Balanced development
  • Security
  • Neutralization of threat
  • Mobilization
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What is Mission Command?

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The Army’s approach to command and control that empowers subordinate decision making and decentralized execution appropriate to the situation.

Emphasizes timely decision making, understanding of higher commander’s intent, and encouraging subordinate intitiative.

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What are the primary components of a resistance?

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  • Guerrillas
  • Auxiliary
  • Underground
  • Public Component: an overt political manifestation of resistance, primarily responsible for negotiating with nation-states or occupying power on behalf of the resistance
  • Shadow Government
  • Government in exile
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Define Irregular Warefare

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A violent struggle between state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence of the relevant populations.

IW favors indirect and asymmetric approaches, though it may employ the full range of military and other capabilities, in order to erode an adversary’s power, influence and will.

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What are the Guerrilla Warfare Missions?

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Guerrilla Warfare missions…
- ISO the theater commander’s UW Campaign
- to assist conventional forces engaged in combat operations
- conducted after linkup with friendly forces

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List the phases of UW and give a brief description.

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  1. Preparation - Unit Mission Preparation Upon Receipt of an Order to Conduct UW
  2. Initial Contact - Unit Initial Contact With Specified Resistance Assets During Mission Preparation or Execution
  3. Infiltration - Unit Infiltration of the Denied Area, Initial Assessment, and Linkup with Resistance
  4. Organization - Unit STR Organization, Confirmation of Mutual Objectives, Principal Assessment, and Resistance Cadre Development
  5. Build-up - Unit STR Buildup and Expansion of Resistance Capabilities
  6. Employment - Unit Advice and Support to the Employment of Resistance Capabilities
  7. Transition - Unit Transition From UW Mission Responsibilities to Follow-On Missions

These are a conceptual template that serves as a guide for understanding, planning, and execution of UW. Not all phases will necessarily take place nor do they have to be executed in a rigid linear order.

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Describe Phase 6 Employment.

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Employment is not limited to only combat; can be nonlethal, political, and organizational activities.

Employment is not something that happens only when all previous phases have been completed.

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Define UW wiTh OuT eRroR.

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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”. (JP 3-05.1)

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What is subversion?

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Actions designed to undermine the military, economic, psychological, or political strength or morale of a governing authority. (JP 3-24)

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What is sabotage?

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Acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct any war materiel, premises, utilities, human and natural resources used for the national defense of a country.

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What is the difference between subversion and sabotage?

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Sabotage is technically a component of subversion. Subversion generally connotes the actions directed at human beings or institutions and meant to undermine the sources of political power, whereas sabotage generally connotes actions directed at physical things and processes and meant to undermine the sources of material power.

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What are the three types of support to resistance?

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  • Indirect Support
  • Direct Support
  • Combat Support
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What are the 6 levels of support to resistance?

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  • No awareness of specific resistance
  • Awareness of, but no interest in specific resistance
  • Policy interest in specific resistance
  • Political Feasibility Assessment of STR – WoG (Primarily a Political calculus)
  • Operational Feasibility Assessment of STR – WoG (Intelligence-driven calculus)
  • Policy Decision to provide STR – WoG (DIMEFIL) Lead or Support; Requires Theater Strategy.
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What are the Principals of Security?

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(DZ MIO COR SSSSSS)
Dispersion
Zonal security
Mobility
INFOSEC
OPSEC
Counterintelligence
Outlaw Bands / Militant Groups
Reaction to Enemy Operations
Security discipline
Security violations
Security training
Security of movement
Security of installations
Security of Communications

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What are the components of area command?

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SOF (supporting)
Political Leaders
Area Command Staff Intelligence/Operations (Organic Intelligence Organization)
Resistance Force Sector Commands
- Guerillas
- Underground
- Auxiliary

24
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What the elements of the Underground?

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  • Intelligence Command
  • Recovery Command
  • Support Command
  • Subversion Command
25
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What is an Area Complex and what are the components?

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A clandestine, dispersed network of facilities to support resistance activities in a given area designed to achieve security, control, dispersion, and flexibility

Training areas
Insurgent Support Networks
Comprehensive Security system
Communications
Logistics
Escape and recovery mechanisms
Base camps
Medical facilities
Supply caches

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What are the zones used to establish a comprehensive security system?

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Zone A: The insurgent base area itself
Zone B: Territory not well controlled by the enemy in which insurgent forces can operate overtly
Zone C: Enemy security forces, police, and military controlled areas

27
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What are the five components of Army doctrine?

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  • Principals
  • Tactics
  • Technique
  • Procedure
  • Terms and Symbols

“Authoritative but requires judgement in application”

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Capstone v. Keystone Doctrine

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Capstone doctrine incorporates the National Security Strategy and the National Military Strategy and provides the broad fundamentals and principles with which we frame keystone doctrine.

Keystone FMs contain broadly applicable information and focus on coordinating the capabilities. They are the doctrinal foundation for a subsequent series of FMs or directly address the conduct of full spectrum operations.

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What are the nine SF principal tasks?

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PE
UW
COIN
FID
SFA
CT
DA
SR
Counterproliferation

30
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List the Irregular Warfare Activities

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Primary:
Counterterrorism
Unconventional warfare
Foreign Internal defense
Counterinsurgency
Stability operations

Related:
Strategic communication
Information operations
Military Information support operations
Civil-military operations
Support to law enforcement, intelligence, and counterintelligence operations

31
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What are Mao’s Phases of UW?

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  • Strategic Defense - Latent Incipient Phase
  • Strategic Stalemate - Guerilla Warfare
  • Strategic Offense - War of Movement
32
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What is asymmetry?

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Asymmetry in means, strategy, tactics, or weapons – in kind. Asymmetry involves actions that an adversary can exercise that you either cannot or will not.

33
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What is SFA?

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DOD Activities that contribute to unified action to generate, employ, and sustain local, HN, or regional security forces ISO a legitimate authority.

34
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What is FID?

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  • Support a HN and help them achieve IDAD goals
  • A comprehensive approach to create a stable environment by removing the root causes behind problems of subversion, lawlessness, insurgency, terrorism, and other threats to its security.
35
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What are the Analytical Tools to help understand the human context of ULO?

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Operational Variables:
- Political, Military, Economic, Social, Information, Infrastructure, Physical Environment, and Time (PMESII-PT).

Mission Variables:
- Mission, Enemy, Terrain and Weather, Troops and Support Available, Time Available, and Civil Considerations (METT-TC).

Civil Considerations:
- Areas, Structures, Capabilities, Organizations, People, and Events (ASCOPE)

36
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What are the Levels of Warfare?

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Strategic Level: National Policy and Theater Strategy
Operational Level: Campaigns and Major Operations
Tactical Level: Battles, Engagements, and Small-Unit/Crew Actions

37
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What are the Joint Functions?

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Related capabilities and activities place into seven groups to help commanders synchronize, integrate, and direct operations:

Command & Control,
Movement & Maneuver,
Intelligence,
Fires,
Sustainment,
Protection,
Information.

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