STR 2 Flashcards
Levels of USG Support to Resistance (STR)
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
STR
Support to Resistance is a USG policy option to SUPPORT FOREIGN RESISTANCE actors that offers an ALTERNATIVE to direct US military intervention or formal engagement in a conflict.
Policy decision may or may not include conventional operations
STR may involve a range of SO, or specific operations of UW
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
resistance partner is INFLUENCED; he is NOT an employee or subordinate to be commanded and controlled
Surrogate
A surrogate is an employee or subordinate that an employer commands and CONTROLS and for whose actions the employer bears some legal and moral responsibility.
The fundamental UW partner relationship with a supported resistance is one of USG influence upon cooperatives only, not control of surrogates
Key Efforts to Support Resistance
(SPEC)
Shape the INFORMATION Environment
Provide Material and Nonmaterial ASSISTANCE
Enable POLITICAL Activities
Conduct Military and Paramilitary OPERATIONS
5 Types of STR
- Resistance Against an Occupying Power (Classic UW)
- Insurgencies Against Sovereign State Government
- Indigenous Resistance Elements in Support of FID
- Indigenous Resistance Elements in Support of CT, CP, or Stability Operations
- Indigenous Resistance Elements in a Contested, Ungoverned Space
1) Resistance (UW)
2) Insurgency (UW)
3) Support FID
4) Support CT, CP, Stability
5) Contested Space
