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Like many other U.S. military manuals [1] dealing with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and unconventional warfare, it was declassified and released into the public domain as a result of provisions such as the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), and is now freely available to the public in both electronic and printed formats.
Unconventional warfare targets the civilian population psychologically to win hearts and minds, and only targets military and political bodies for that purpose, seeking to render the military proficiency of the enemy irrelevant. Limited conventional warfare tactics can be used unconventionally to demonstrate might and power, rather than to ...
Unconventional warfare is essentially support provided by the military to a foreign insurgency or resistance. The legal definition of UW is: Unconventional Warfare consists of activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt or overthrow an occupying power or government by operating through or with an ...
It applies to clandestine operations for espionage, and a clandestine phase before direct action (DA) or unconventional warfare (UW). Clandestine HUMINT sources at certain times act as local guides for special reconnaissance (SR). Many of the techniques are important in counterintelligence. Defensive counterintelligence personnel needs to ...
The documents found on his computer included guides on homemade explosives, “unconventional warfare devices and techniques”, and “booby traps”. Mr Isaacs said Cannon, who has autism ...
FM 3–0.5.130, Army Special Operations Forces Unconventional Warfare. Establishes keystone doctrine for Army special operations forces ( ARSOF ) operations in unconventional warfare . FM 5–31, Boobytraps – Describes how regular demolition charges and materials can be used for victim-initiated explosive devices .
The documents found on his computer included guides on homemade explosives, “unconventional warfare devices and techniques”, and “booby traps”.
The U.S. Army field manual describes unconventional warfare as “intent of United States unconventional warfare operations is to exploit a hostile power’s political, military, economic, and psychological vulnerability by developing and sustaining resistance forces to accomplish U.S. strategic objectives.” [2]