MICCC Stability/ Consolidate Gains

What is the acronym used for analysis of civil considerations?

ASCOPE

What is an analytical technique which requires you to identify all reasonable alternatives and evaluate them against each other seeking evidence to refute hypothesis?

Analysis of competing hypotheses (ACH)

Threat characterisitics for irregular threats can be found in which appendix of ATP 2-01.3?

Appendix C

_________ is/are security tasks to protect friendly forces, installation routes, critical infrastructure, populations, and actions within an assigned area of operations.

Area security

The Elements of Insurgency consists of: Leaders, Guerillas, Underground, ___________ and mass base.

Auxiliaries

What are the 4 stability mechanisms?

Compel, control, influence, support

2 aspects of insurgency.

Components (inputs), manifestation (outputs)

CARVER is a target value analysis tool. What does each letter stand for?

Criticality Accesibility Recouperability Vulnerability Effect Recognizability

Components consist of three subfactors. What are they?

Elements, dynamics, strategies

According to ATP 3-60, Target Information Folders contain information related to_____.

High value individuals (HVI)

Changing the nature of a conflict is one of the principles a ___________ uses to apply their various instruments of diplomatic, political, information, economic, and military power.

Hybrid threat

According to ATP 2-33.4, ________ is an analytical tool that helps sort information and identify patterns in time.

Pattern Analysis Plot Sheet/Wheel

In the context of the operational framework, stability operations are specifically conducted in the ____ area.

Rear

In source reliability and information accuracy, what is the rating F6 mean?

Reliability cannot be judged. Truth cannot be judged.

What is the acronym used for analyzing capabilities during ASCOPE?

SWEAT-MSO

What does the acronym SWEAT-MSO stand for?

Sewage, water, electricity, academics, trash, medical, safety, other.

Stadiums, police stations, power plants, post offices, religious buildings, and govenremnt buildings would all be part of what ASCOPE consideration?

Structures

The ______ includes a status bar which includes PID, intel cost, and location.

TIF or baseball card

Manifestation consists of three subfactors. What are they?

Tactics, strengths, vulnerabilities.

The ______________ includes target description, targeting significance, target summary and Intel Gain / Loss assessment. (ATP 3-60)

Target Information Folder (TIF) or Baseball card

ATP 2-01.3 defines ____ as organizations that target civilians and/or regular forces to gain political leverage and legitimacy.

Terrorist groups

What is the principal difference between IPOE in stability and offensive/defensive operations?

The focus and degree of detail of analysis required for the civil aspects of the environment.

Unity of purposes for consolidating gains starts at the ____, where leaders plan and coordinate the resources necessary to achieve the _______ desired end state.

Theater strategic level, JFC's

Information warfare, exploitation of cultural seams, competition for resources, promoting conflicting narratives, and supporting religious divides are all listed as _____________ to consolidating gains listed in FM 3-0.

Threats

False The dimension of time favors those fighting the United States. An enemy need not win any engagement or battles; the enemy simply must not lose the war.

True or false: Swift Tactical Success is essential to the hybrid threat. (TC 7-100 1-9 page 1-2)

Analysts sometimes integrate the _____ with ACH; this can help elevate one hypothesis in favor of another.

Weighted ranking technique

1. 1754 to 1763: regular British and French forces fought each other amidst irregular Colonialists fighting for the British and American Indians fighting for both sides. 2. 1814: Peninsula War ended after the combination of regular and irregular allied forces from Britain, Portugal, and Spain prevented France from controlling the Iberian Peninsula. 3. 1954 to 1976: Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam combined irregular and regular forces in fighting the French and U.S. forces. Viet Cong would organize into conventional and unconventional units. 4. 2006: Hezbollah mixed conventional capabilities (such as anti-armor weapons, rockets, and command and control networks) with irregular tactics.

What are 4 historical example(s) of a Hybrid Threat? (TC 7-100 page 1-1 )

speed, agility, versatility, and changeability

Which of the following are key attributes of the hybrid threat against a larger more powerful opponent? (TC 7-100 Ref page 1-10 page 1-2)

From a friendly perspective, the most challenging capability of a hybrid threat is its ability to ______ and ________.

adapt, transition

A minimum-essential stability operations task which requires Army units to protect the population from violence and restore public order. "Providing for the safety of the host nation and its population, including protection from internal and external threats."

establish civil security

The minimum-essential stability tasks are ______ and __________.

establish civil security and restore essential services (provide immediate needs)

All-source analysis is accomplished through the _____ of single source information with existing intelligence in order to produce intelligence.

fusion

Ultimate responsibility for stability resides with the _____.

host nation

Consolidating gains during armed conflict is an ________, planned for and conducted continously throughout LSCO.

imperative

_____, _________, and ____________ are 3 major sub components to analyzing people while constructing ASCOPE.

language, religion, and culture

The hybrid threat is a diverse and dynamic combination of regular forces, irregular forces, and/or criminal elements unified to achieve what?

mutually benefiting effects

A stability operation is an operation conducted _______ in coordination with other instruments of national power to establish or maintain a secure environment and provide essential services, emergency infrastructure, reconstruction, and humanitarian relief.

outside of the United States

Consolidating gains at every echelon leads to better transitions out of armed conflict and into ______.

post-conflict competition

In CARVER analysis, __________ is how long it will take to replace, repair, or bypass the destruction of or damage to the target.

recouperability

What are the 4 phases of the intelligence analysis process?

screen, analyze, integrate, produce

List 4 of the 10 steps of the ACH process

1. Identify the intelligence problem. 2. Identify all possible hypotheses. 3. Gather all information related to the intelligence problem. 4. Prepare a matrix - Hypotheses at top, evidence down left side 5. Determine if each piece of information is C or I with each hypotheses. 6. Refine the matrix. Reconsider the hypotheses and remove evidence that has no diagnostic value. 7. Draw tentative conclusions about the relative likelihood of each hypothesis. 8. Analyze if conclusions rely primarily on a few critical pieces of information. 9. Report conclusions. 10. Identify milestones for future observation that may indicate events are taking a different course than expected.

List 4 of the 8 Dynamics of Insurgency.

1. Leadership 2. Ideology 3. Environment and Geography 4. Objectives 5. External Support 6. Internal Support 7. Organizational and Operational patterns 8. Phasing and Timing.

List 4 of the 10 steps for an Irregular COA.

1. Template the physical objectives irregular forces may attack. 2. Template ingress and egress routes around objectives. 3. Template range fans around objectives. 4. Template potential locations of reconnaissance and surveillance assets. 5. Template potential ambush sites. 6. Template potential sniper locations. 7. Template potential IED locations. 8. Template potential cache sites. 9. Template the bed-down area for direct action cells and individuals. 10. Draw the AO for each direct-action cell.

Consolidating gains is resource intensive. List 4 possible resources required.

1. additional forces to provide area security tasks 2. host nation, partner, and allied security forces 3. ISR assets 4. engineers

What are the 4 fundamentals (principles) of stabilization that create the foundation for long term stability?

1. conflict transformation 2. unity of effort 3. building host-nation capacity and capabilities 4. host-nation ownership and legitimacy

What are the six army stability operations tasks?

1. establish civil security 2. conduct security cooperation 3. support to civil control 4. restore essential services 5. support to governance 6. support to economic and infrastructure development

Name three additional intelligence products that would be added to the TIF

1. human intelligence reports on the HVI 2. signal intelligence reports that reference the HVI imagery 3. floor plans of likely area 4. Link diagrams (social and communications networking), both from human intelligence and signal intelligence sources. 5. Previous concept of operations targeting the HVI. 6. Patrol debriefs. 7. Significant activities regarding the HVI. 8. Biometrics

Name the (6) typical elements of the baseball card.

1. map of HVI area 2. picture of HVI 3. personal history of HVI 4. pattern of life 5. cell phone number 6. vehicle identification

List at least 4 considerations when analyzing composition of an irregular force.

1. operational and support cells 2. echelons 3. staff elements 4. political, religious, ideological, and military aims 5. internal and external C2 6. operational organizations 7. internal and external support structure 8. external ties 9. assassination squads 10. bomb and demolition squads 11. attack or hit squads

Organized movement aimed at the overflow of a constituted government.

Insurgency

The conclusions reached during intelligence analysis should adhere to analytic standards such as those established in _______ as best as possible.

Intelligence community directive (ICD) 203

A violent struggle among state and non- state actors for legitimacy and influence over the relevant population.

Irregular Warfare

What are the 5 elements of insurgency?

Leaders, Guerillas, Underground, Auxiliaries, and mass base.

What are the primary intelligence requirements associated with stability operations generally based upon?

Lines of operation identified by the commander