What are the core activities of UW?
- Preparation of the Environment
- Intelligence Operations
- Guerrilla Warfare
- Personnel Recovery
- Subversion
- Sabotage
Draw an org chart for a notional JTF.
. JTF |JFLCC JFSOCC JFMCC JFACC
: | :
: SOJTF :
: | :
: SMU JSOTF JSOC SOLE
: |
SOCCE SOTF SOTF SOTF
What is the difference between prescriptive and descriptive doctrine? Give an example of each.
Procedures are prescriptive and have a series of steps, such as MEDEVAC 9-Line. Tactics and techniques are descriptive and require judgment in application, such as crossing a linear danger area.
What do effective narratives accomplish?
They craft or support a believable story and lay out an actionable plan for those who encounter it.
Identify and describe the three frames.
- Diagnostic Frame: contains a description of the problem and identification of the victims.
- Prognostic Frame: articulates a proposed solution to the problem, possibly including a plan of attack and a strategy for carrying out that plan.
- Motivational Frame: provides a rationale for engaging in collective action and involves the development of an appropriate vocabulary to mobilize individuals.
Draw the org chart for DOD from POTUS to Combatant Commands.
What are the key efforts to support resistance?
- Enable Political Activities
- Shape the Information Environment
- Provide Material and Nonmaterial Assistance
- Conduct Military and Paramilitation Operations
What is an Internal Defense and Development strategy?
The full range of measures taken by a nation to promote its growth and to protect itself from subversion, lawlessness, and insurgency is their IDAD
Focuses on building viable institutions (political, military, economic, social) that respond to the needs of society
What are the four independent functions to prevent or counter internal threats of an IDAD strategy?
- Balanced development
- Security
- Neutralization of threat
- Mobilization
What is Mission Command?
The Army’s approach to command and control that empowers subordinate decision making and decentralized execution appropriate to the situation.
Emphasizes timely decision making, understanding of higher commander’s intent, and encouraging subordinate intitiative.
What are the primary components of a resistance?
- Guerrillas
- Auxiliary
- Underground
- Public Component: an overt political manifestation of resistance, primarily responsible for negotiating with nation-states or occupying power on behalf of the resistance
- Shadow Government
- Government in exile
Define Irregular Warefare
A violent struggle between state and non-state actors for legitimacy and influence of the relevant populations.
IW favors indirect and asymmetric approaches, though it may employ the full range of military and other capabilities, in order to erode an adversary’s power, influence and will.
What are the Guerrilla Warfare Missions?
Guerrilla Warfare missions…
- ISO the theater commander’s UW Campaign
- to assist conventional forces engaged in combat operations
- conducted after linkup with friendly forces
List the phases of UW and give a brief description.
- Preparation - Unit Mission Preparation Upon Receipt of an Order to Conduct UW
- Initial Contact - Unit Initial Contact With Specified Resistance Assets During Mission Preparation or Execution
- Infiltration - Unit Infiltration of the Denied Area, Initial Assessment, and Linkup with Resistance
- Organization - Unit STR Organization, Confirmation of Mutual Objectives, Principal Assessment, and Resistance Cadre Development
- Build-up - Unit STR Buildup and Expansion of Resistance Capabilities
- Employment - Unit Advice and Support to the Employment of Resistance Capabilities
- Transition - Unit Transition From UW Mission Responsibilities to Follow-On Missions
These are a conceptual template that serves as a guide for understanding, planning, and execution of UW. Not all phases will necessarily take place nor do they have to be executed in a rigid linear order.
Describe Phase 6 Employment.
Employment is not limited to only combat; can be nonlethal, political, and organizational activities.
Employment is not something that happens only when all previous phases have been completed.
Define UW wiTh OuT eRroR.
“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”. (JP 3-05.1)
What is subversion?
Actions designed to undermine the military, economic, psychological, or political strength or morale of a governing authority. (JP 3-24)
What is sabotage?
Acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct any war materiel, premises, utilities, human and natural resources used for the national defense of a country.
What is the difference between subversion and sabotage?
Sabotage is technically a component of subversion. Subversion generally connotes the actions directed at human beings or institutions and meant to undermine the sources of political power, whereas sabotage generally connotes actions directed at physical things and processes and meant to undermine the sources of material power.
What are the three types of support to resistance?
- Indirect Support
- Direct Support
- Combat Support
What are the 6 levels of support to resistance?
- No awareness of specific resistance
- Awareness of, but no interest in specific resistance
- 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.
What are the Principals of Security?
(DZ MIO COR SSSSSS)
Dispersion
Zonal security
Mobility
INFOSEC
OPSEC
Counterintelligence
Outlaw Bands / Militant Groups
Reaction to Enemy Operations
Security discipline
Security violations
Security training
Security of movement
Security of installations
Security of Communications
What are the components of area command?
SOF (supporting)
Political Leaders
Area Command Staff Intelligence/Operations (Organic Intelligence Organization)
Resistance Force Sector Commands
- Guerillas
- Underground
- Auxiliary
What the elements of the Underground?
- Intelligence Command
- Recovery Command
- Support Command
- Subversion Command
