MOD B Quiz 3

Question 1

4 Pillars of ARSOF

Answer 1

-Crisis Response
-Understanding and Wielding Influence
-Precision Targeting Operations
-Indigenous approach

Question 2

Identify definition:

The Department of Defense activities that support the development of the capacity and capability of foreign security forces and their supporting institutions.

Offer a means by which security cooperation activities supporting shaping as part of a GCC’s CCP or a means of building capability and capacity of FSF while conducting crisis response or contingency operation support of a PN.

Answer 2

Security force Assistance (SFA)

Question 3

Define Direct Action (DA)

Answer 3

Short duration strikes and small-scale offensive actions in a hostile, denied, or sensitive environment. To:

seize, capture, exploit
Recover, damage, destroy

(Short duration strikes and other small-scale offensive actions conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or diplomatically sensitive environments and which employ specialized military capabilities to seize, destroy, capture, exploit, recover, or damage designated targets.)

Question 4

Which FM defines WMD?

Answer 4

FM 3-18

Chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear weapons capable of high destruction, or mass casualties.

(Chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons capable of a high order of destruction or causing mass casualties, and excluding the means of transporting or propelling the weapon where such means is a separable and divisible part from the weapon.)

Question 5

3 components preparation of the environment

Answer 5

-Operational preparation of
the environment (OPE)

-Advanced force operations (AFO)

-Intelligence operations

Question 6

Primary focus of foreign internal defense (FID)

Answer 6

Help legitimate host government
address internal threats and underlying causes.

Question 7

What activities does the DOD conduct within security force assistance at the tactical level?

Answer 7

OTERA:

-Organizing
-Training
-Equipping
-Rebuilding
-Advising

Question 8

What principal task seeks to simultaneously defeat and contain insurgency and address its root causes.

Answer 8

Counter Insurgency (COIN)

Question 9

In a COIN operation whose grievances are we addressing?

Answer 9

Addressing insurgent’s grievances