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- The Special Activities Division (SAD) is a division of the United States Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) National Clandestine Service (NCS), responsible for covert action and "special activities". These activities include covert political influence and paramilitary operations. Within SAD there are two separate groups. One for paramilitary operations and another for political influence. ^[1] Special Operations Group (SOG) is the element within SAD responsible for paramilitary operations
- The primary strengths of SAD/SOG Paramilitary Officers are agility, adaptability,
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- - They are also fully trained intelligence officers with all the clandestine skills that come with that training. These officers often operate in remote locations behind enemy lines to carry out direct action
  - Within the Special Operations Group of SAD, there are three elements. These elements are Air Branch, Maritime Branch, and Ground Branch.
  - As such, Paramilitary Operations Officers are trained to operate in all of these areas and environments. Because these officers are taken from the most elite units in the US military and then provided with additional training to be CIA clandestine intelligence officers and SAD/SOG operatives in all these environments, many US security experts assess them as the elite of the US special missions units. ^[44]
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- An insurgency is an armed rebellion against a constituted authority
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The first method relies on superb intelligence, provided by those who know the natural and artificial environment of the conflict as well as the insurgents. Once such superior intelligence is gained, the counterinsurgents must be trained to a point of high professionalism and discipline such that they will exercise discrimination and restraint. Through such discrimination and restraint, the counterinsurgents do not alienate members of the populace besides those already fighting them, while delaying the time when the counterinsurgents become disgusted by their own actions and demoralized.

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counterinsurgency insurgency military strategy on 2009-06-05
- To understand counter-insurgency, one must understand insurgency. See models of insurgency to understand the dynamics of revolutionary warfare. Insurgents capitalize on societal problems, often called gaps; counter-insurgency addresses closing the gaps. When the gaps are wide, they create a sea of discontent, of which Mao wrote "the guerilla must swim in the people as the fish swims in the sea."^[2]
- As such, the term "counter-insurgency" is somewhat cognate with the the armed "suppression" of a rebellion, coupled to tactics such as hearts and minds which hope to fracture the links between the insurgency and the population in which the insurgents move and claim to represent.
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- - The law of armed conflict requires that, to use force, "combatants" must distinguish individuals presenting a threat from innocent civilians. This basic principle is accepted by all disciplined militaries. In the counterinsurgency, disciplined application of force is even more critical because our enemies camouflage themselves in the civilian population.
  - The oil spot approach is a descriptive term for the concentration of counter-insurgent forces into an expanding, secured zone. The origins of the expression is to be found in its initial use by Marshal Hubert Lyautey, the main theoretician of French colonial warfare and counter-insurgency strategy
  - The majority of counter-insurgency efforts by major powers in the last century have been spectacularly unsuccessful
  - Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart pointed out in the Insurgency addendum to the second version of his book Strategy: The Indirect Approach
  - a popular insurgency has an inherent advantage over any occupying force.
  - However, once dispersed and decentralized, the irregular nature of the rebel campaigns proved a decisive counter to French superiority on the battlefield. Napoleon's army had no means of effectively combatting the rebels, and in the end their strength and morale were so sapped
  - Counter-insurgency efforts may be successful, especially when the insurgents are unpopular.
  - According to Liddell Hart, there are few effective counter-measures to this strategy. So long as the insurgency maintains popular support, it will retain all of its strategic advantages of mobility, invisibility, and legitimacy in its own eyes and the eyes of the people. So long as this is the situation, an insurgency essentially cannot be defeated by regular forces.
  - "by definition, a strong counterinsurgent who uses his strength to kill the members of a small, weak organization of insurgents - let alone the civilian population by which it is surrounded, and which may lend it support - will commit crimes in an unjust cause," while "a child who is in a serious fight with an adult is justified in using every and any means available - not because he or she is right, but because he or she has no choice.^[9] Every act of insurgency becomes, from the perspective of the counterinsurgent, a reason to end the conflict, while also being a reason for the insurgents to continue until victory.
  - The first method relies on superb intelligence, provided by those who know the natural and artificial environment of the conflict as well as the insurgents. Once such superior intelligence is gained, the counterinsurgents must be trained to a point of high professionalism and discipline such that they will exercise discrimination and restraint. Through such discrimination and restraint, the counterinsurgents do not alienate members of the populace besides those already fighting them, while delaying the time when the counterinsurgents become disgusted by their own actions and demoralized.
  - Cordon and search is a military tactic to cordon off an area and search the premises for weapons or insurgents.^[14]^[15] It is one of the basic counter insurgency operation.
  - Air power can play an important role in counter-insurgency, capable of carrying out a wide range of operations:
    
    Transportation in support of combattants and civilians alike, including casualty evacuations;
    Intelligence gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance;
    Psychological operations, through leaflet drops, loudspeakers, and radio broadcasts;
    Air-to-ground attack against 'soft' targets.^[20]
  - For an aircraft - whether fixed-wing and helicopter - to successfully carry out all these roles, it should have such qualities as low loitering speed, long endurance, simplicity in maintenance, and the capability to make short (or vertical) take-offs and landings from rough frontline airstrips.
  - It occurred to various commanders that soldiers trained to operate as guerrillas would have a strong sense of how to fight guerrillas
  - In these missions, the SOF teams lived and fought with the locals.
  - The CIA's Special Activities Division (SAD) is the premiere unit for creating or combating an insurgency.
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- They will orient the “patrollers” on the fundamentals of citizen journalism—from shooting pictures or videos using cell phones or cameras, to writing captions and telling a story, to uploading their reports to the Internet. They will also be briefed on the electoral process and the ethics of journalism.
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multiplication strategy on 2009-08-07
- Force multiplication, in military usage, refers to a combination of attributes or advantages which make a given force more effective than another force of comparable size. A force multiplier refers to a factor that dramatically increases (hence "multiplies") the effectiveness of an item or group.
  
  Some common force multipliers are:
  
  Morale
  Technology
  Geographical features
  Weather
  Recruitment through diplomacy
  Training and experience
  Fearsome reputation
  Deception
- Observe: make use of the best sensors and other intelligence available
  Orient: put the new observations into a context with the old
  Decide: select the next action based on the combined observation and local knowledge
  Act: carry out the selected action, ideally while the opponent is still observing your last action.
  
  Boyd's concept is also known as the OODA Loop, and is a description of the decision-making process that Boyd contended applies to business, sports, law enforcement and military operations. Boyd's doctrine is widely taught in the American military, and one of the aims of network centric warfare is to get inside his OODA loop--that is, to go from observation to action before the enemy can get past orientation, preventing him from ever being able to make an effective decision or put it into action. Small unit leadership is critical to this, and NCW's ability to disseminate information to small unit leaders enables such tactics.
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- - "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."

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