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Define Resistance
An organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to resist legally established government.
Define Insurgency
An organized movement aimed at the overthrow of a constituted government through subversion and armed conflict.
Why do populations resist?
Desire
Grievances
What is required of a will to resist?
Active minority and a neutral/passive majority.
List active resistance membership
Clandestine Resistance
Overt Resistance
Core Resistance Activities
Subversion Sabotage Escape/Evasion Guerilla Warfare Intelligence Operations
7 dynamics of insurgency
Leadership Ideology Objectives Environment and geography External support Phasing and timing Organizational and operational patterns
Mao’s three phases of insurgency
Latent or Incipient Phase
Guerilla Wafare Phase
War of Movement Phase
Guerilla defined
Overt military component of a resistance movement or insurgency
Advantages/Disadvantages of Guerillas
Cons: Training, Equipment, Firepower
Pros: Initiative
Auxillary Defined
Portion of the population that provides active clandestine support to the guerrilla force or the underground.
What is specific to the auxiliary
Assume greatest risk
Most expendible
Underground defined
Cellular organization within the resistance movement or insurgency that has ability to conduct operations in areas that are inaccessible to guerrillas, such as urban areas under control of local security.
What’s specific to Underground?
First to form
Delegate risk to auxillary
Cellular structure
Definition of UW
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.
Define Guerilla Warfare
Military and paramilitary operations conducted in enemy-held or hostile territory by irregular, predominantly indigenous, forces.
Define General War
In terms of UW, General War is the anticipation of large-scale U.S. involvement in the campaign.
Define Limited War
In terms of UW, it’s the use of limited-involvement operations to pressure an adversary.
Define Resistance Movement
An organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to resist the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability.
Define Subversion
Actions designed to undermine the military, economic, psychological, or political strength or morale of a governing authority.
Define Denied Area
An area under enemy or unfriendly control in which friendly forces cannot expect to operate successfully within existing operational constraints and force capabilities.
Define Clandestine
An operation sponsored or conducted by governmental departments or agencies in such a way as to assure secrecy or concealment (of the operation).
Define Covert
An operation that is so planned and executed as to conceal the identity of or permit plausible denial by the sponsor
3 types of UW support to Resistance or Insurgency
Direct-General War scenario; visibility not an issue
Indirect-Logistical aid and training/Limited War
Combat-All activities of indirect and direct support in addition to combat ops
