Test Overview Flashcards
What are Mao’s 3 phases to an insurgency?
- Latent/Incipient
2 Guerrilla Warfare - War of Movement
What are the 7 Dynamics of successful insurgencies?
- Leadership
- Ideology
- Objectives
- Environment/Geography
- External Support
- Phasing/Timing (Mao)
- Organizational / Operational Patterns
What are the 7 phases of Unconventional Warfare?
- Preparation
- Initial Contact
- Infiltration
- Organization
- Build Up
- Employment
- Transition
What are some characteristics of the Inner Security Zone?
Organic
Base Defense
Exfil, blow out, black/gold
physical security measures
What are some characteristics of the Outer Security Zone?
In-organic
auxiliary assisted
provide early warning
passive and active surveillance
What are the types of external resupply?
Automatic
Emergency
On-Call/Routine
What are some characteristics of a Resistance Movement?
- Willingness to cooperate with US
- Compatible objectives and ideology
- Capable resistance leadership
Forms as an immediate response to an occupying power
Peaceful in nature
Resists through disrupting civil order and stability
What are some characteristics of a Insurgency?
Forms over time from discontent against an oppressive regime
Usually indigenous
Violent in nature
Overthrow through subversion and sabotage
What are the insurgent support networks?
Logistics Transportation Medical Communication Information/Propaganda Intelligence/Counterintelligence Finance Recruitment
What are the 5 core resistance activities?
- Subversion
- Sabotage
- Escape and evasion networks
- Guerrilla warfare
- Intelligence operations
What are the ways an insurgency can conduct logistical resupply?
Battlefield recovery Purchase Levy Barter Production Confiscation *Cache *Repair materials
What are the conditions for US support?
Weakened or unconsolidated government
Will of the population
Favorable terrain
Define Unconventional Warfare
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.
