ARSOF UW REVIEW Flashcards
Irregular Warfare
A form of warfare that emphasizes undermining and eroding an adversary’s power, influence, and will to exercise control or influence over relevant population(s).
A violent struggle between state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence over relevant populations.
F -FID
U -UW
C -COIN
C -CT/CP
S -Stability Operation
Strategic Defensive (Latent or Incipient)
When the government has a stronger correlation of forces and insurgent must concentrate on survival and building support. This is a period of latent insurgency that allows time to wear down superior enemy strength while the insurgency gains support and establishes bases.
Strategic Stalemate (Guerrilla Warfare)
When force correlations approach equilibrium and guerrilla warfare becomes the most important activity.
Strategic Offensive (War of Movement)
When insurgents have superior strength and military forces move to conventional operations to destroy the government’s military capability.
Security Assistance (SA)
A group of programs by which the US provides defense articles, military training, and other defense related services by grant, loan, credit, or cash sales in furtherance of national policies and objectives.
Security Assistance Organization (SAO)
Mechanism for ensuring proper conduct of SA.
Foreign Internal Defense (FID)
JIIM efforts to remove root causes behind problems of subversion, lawlessness, insurgency, terrorism, and other threats to a Host Nation’s security.
National Security Council (NSC) - Responsible for planning guidance for FID.
DOS – Agency for execution of FID programs.
DOD – Provides personnel and equipment to help FID OBJ.
Internal Defense and Development (IDAD)
The full range of measures taken by a nation to promote its growth and to protect itself from subversion, lawlessness, and insurgency and focuses on building viable institutions (political, economic, social, and military) that respond to the needs of society.
IDAD plan –
- Balanced Development
- Security
- Neutralization
- Mobilization
Types of FID/UW support: Indirect, Direct, Combat Support
Resistance
A nation’s organized, whole of society effort, encompassing the full range of activities from nonviolent to violent, led by a legally established government to reestablish independence and autonomy within its sovereign territory that has been wholly or partially occupied by a foreign power.
Insurgency – Organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify, or challenge political control of a region. Insurgency can also refer to the group itself.
UW Core Activities
Preparation of the Environment
Subversion
Sabotage
Guerrilla Warfare
Personnel Recovery (Non-conventional assisted recover)
Intelligence Operations
Support the Resistance (STR)
USG policy that offers an alternative to a direct US military intervention or formal political engagement in a conflict.
STR Activities:
Enable Political Activities
Shape the Information Environment
Provide Material and Non-material Assistance
Conduct Military and Paramilitary Operations
Feasibility Assessments
There are at least four different levels at which feasibility to conduct STR has meaning. The political, operational, resistance capability, and the feasibility to conduct UW (as a subset of STR).
Political Feasibility of US Sponsorship
Operational Feasibility of Support to Resistance
Resistance Capability Assessment
Feasibility to Conduct Unconventional Warfare
(The Criticality of the feasibility assessment – planning remains limited until leadership validates certain assumptions)
Varieties of Support the Resistance
Classic UW – against occupying power
Classic UW – insurgencies against
FID – indigenous resistance elements
CT/CP (Stability OPs)
Contested/Ungoverned Space – indigenous resistance elements
Overt Political Manifestation of a Resistance
Public Component
