UW Flashcards
(74 cards)
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The following activities fall under which UW activity? Tactical Intel support of sabotage Scientific or military secrets IPB
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Intelligence operations
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List 3 examples of actions during phase IV of UW?
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Develop mutual objectives Build rapport Develop cadre Compartmentalize guerrillas, aux, underground ID strengths and weaknesses Continued assessment
3
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List a function conducted by the guerrillas
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Overt military component
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The following actions fall under which UW activity?
- Recovery of isolated persons by SOF
- UW air, ground, maritime forces
- OGAs
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Non-conventional Assisted Recovery
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List 3 examples of actions during Phase VII of UW?
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- change from UW to FID focus
- demobilize resistance force / transition into police / security force
- partner Force goes dormant or handed off to other agencies or foreign powers
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What is the objective (dynamic) of a Traditionalist?
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Resist change and return to the perceived norm
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Which objective (dynamic) attempts to “impose universal equality”?
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Egalitarian
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Who’s responsible for conducting sabotage activities?
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Underground
Guerrillas
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What are the phases of UW?
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Latent or Incipient Phase
Guerrilla War Phase
War of Movement Phase
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List 2 functions conducted by the Underground
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- operations inaccessible to the guerrillas
- forms a shadow government
- subversion, urban sabotage, intelligence / counterintelligence
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What is the objective (dynamic) of a Utopian?
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Impose theoretical vision of man’s perfection
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Describe how an organization arranged as PARALLEL CELLS operates
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- Two cells have the same assignment
- each is unaware of the other’s presence or mission
- REDUNDANCY
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List 3 examples of actions during Phase VI of UW
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- expanded scope of operations
- synchronize attacks for D-Day in support of Coalition forces
- continue guerrilla warfare and subversion
- interdiction of MISO operations
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What is phase IV of UW?
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Organization
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What is the desired effect from sabotage?
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- Increase enemy’s expenditure of money, time, manpower
- hurt morale
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What is Phase I of UW?
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Preparation
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The following actions fall under which UW activity?
- most important activity
- conducted over a long period of time
- tactical applications
- information activities with MISO
- manipulation of crowds, riots, and demonstrations
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Subversion
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Define Unconventional Warfare
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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.
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List 3 examples of actions during Phase III of UW
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- Pilot team infiltrates
- feasibility assessment confirmation / completion
- ODAs infiltrate, link up with partner force, and conduct operational assessments
- train cadre (outside OE) send back to OE
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What is Phase II of UW?
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Initial Contact
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List functions conducted by the Auxiliary
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- logistics
- safe house security
- transportation
- early warning
- recruitment
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What objective (dynamic) focuses on “destructively eliminate government entirely”?
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Anarchist
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What is the Main Effort in Large Scale UW?
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The military, UW is a shaping Effort
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List 3 examples of actions during Phase II of UW?
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- assess insurgency objectives align with US interests
- pilot team makes contact with resistance
- pilot team conducts detailed area analysis (human terrain)
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List the dynamics of an insurgency
- Leadership
- Ideology
- Objectives
- Environment or Geography
- External Support
- Phasing and Timing
- Organizational and Operational Patterns
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What is Phase V of UW?
Build up
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What are examples of subversion? (Tactical Level)
- manipulation of crowds, riots, demonstrations
| - information activities with MISO
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What is Phase III of UW?
Infiltration
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List 3 examples of action during Phase V of UW?
- expand and improve clandestine infrastructure
- confidence targets
- define enemy COG/vulnerabilities
- prep for Coalition D-Day
- US/indigenous Force agree on support plan for UW campaign (designate targets)
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What is the objective (dynamic) of a Pluralist?
Break monopoly on political discourse
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Define Insurgency
A group that achieves aims through strategy of armed conflict and subversion against an indigenous or occupying power
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What is the difference between Unconventional Assisted Recovery and Non-conventional Assisted Recovery?
UAR is led by SOF personnel, UW ground and maritime forces or OGA
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What purpose do Cells in Parallel serve?
Redundancy
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In which phase of an insurgency would confidence targets be attacked?
Guerrilla Warfare
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Why is it important to identify an insurgency's dynamic in a COIN environment?
To combat the insurgency
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What is the criteria for US sponsorship?
- feasibility
- adequacy
- acceptability
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What are the components of an insurgency?
Underground
auxiliary
Guerrilla force
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The Area Complex represents the what?
Insurgent's Area of Operation
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What is the Main Effort in small scale UW?
UW (D,I,E)
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What is Phase VI of UW?
Employment
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The following actions fall under which UW activity?
- does not usually get in decisive engagements
- support of UW campaign
- assist conventional forces engaged in combat
Guerrilla Warfare
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What does JIIM stand for?
Joint
Interagency
Inter-governmental
Multinational
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What are the categories of supply in a UW campaign?
- Accompanying Supply
| - External Supply
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_________is a clandestine, dispersed network or facility to support resistance activities in a given area.
Area Complex
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What is the strategic objective of a Secessionists?
Break off some section from the polity
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_________ is a cellular structure that provides two entities conducting the same task but unaware of each other's actions.
Parallel cells
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What is the strategic objective of a Commercialist?
Facilitate greed through violent illegalities
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What is the irregular organizational structure established within a UW operational area to command and control irregular forces advised by SF?
Area Command
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What actions are conducted in support of guerrilla warfare?
- raid
- ambush
- interdiction
- support of airborne operations
- reconnaissance
- rear area security
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How do we conduct Intelligence Support of Sabotage?
- Reconnaissance
| - pattern of life collection
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Describe how an organization arranged as "cells in series" operates.
- division of labor to carry out functions
| - such as the manufacturing of weapons, supply, escape and evasion, propaganda, etc)
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Who conducts Political Intelligence?
Underground
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In which ways does the US conduct UW?
Large Scale
| Small Scale
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Why is it important to identify the dynamic of an insurgency?
To support the insurgency
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What is the objective (dynamic) of an Apocalyptic?
Act as a catalyst for an envisioned end of times
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Define Resistance Movement
Unique form of insurgency focused on removal of an occupying power by planners and is defined as an organized effort by some portion of civil population of a country to resist the legally established government or occupying power
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What are some additional forces utilized during Phase II and how are they utilized?
MISO
| CA
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Why is ideology important to an insurgency?
Serves as a rallying call for all members
| Unify the divergent interests and goals
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What is the objective (dynamic) of a Globalist?
Provoke Supranational reorganization
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What else is included in the Environment and Geography other than physical terrain?
Demographics
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Where do insurgents tend to find external support?
- criminal organizations
| - foreign powers
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List 3 examples of actions during Phase I of UW
- POTUS/SecDef EXORD approval
- insurgency/resistance/population prepared to conduct/support UW
- information operations against specific audiences
- interagency determines goals, capabilities, liabilities of insurgency/resistance
- IPB
- feasibility of UW
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What is the objective (dynamic) of a Reformist?
Modify the application of laws and morals
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The following actions fall under which UW activity?
- conducted as low visibility, clandestine, covert operation
- enable an insurgency to achieve desired end state (coerce, disrupt, overthrow)
Preparation of the Environment
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In which phase of an insurgency would you infiltrate key government organizations and civilian groups?
Latent / Incipient Phase
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The following actions fall under which UW activity?
- ability to damage or slow something down with natural means
- single event at strategic level with significant impact
Sabotage
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Which phase of UW incurs the most risk?
Infiltrarion
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In which phase of an insurgency would you collapse the government?
War of movement
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What is the objective (dynamic) of a Preservationist?
Safeguard valued institutions from change
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What is Phase VII of UW?
Transition
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Which phase is the most critical for successful insurrection?
Organization
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What are the activities of UW?
- preparation of the Environment
- subversion
- sabotage
- intelligence operations
- non-conventional assisted recovery
- guerrilla warfare
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_______ is a cellular structure which provides a division of labor for underground and auxiliary tasks.
Cells in series
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What is the recovery of isolated person, by SOF, UW air, ground, and maritime forces; and OGAs specifically trained and interfaced with or employment of indigenous or surrogate personnel called?
Non conventional Assisted Recovery
