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What is the difference between war and mootw?

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War - US national leadership decide to conduct large-scale, sustained combat operations to achieve nation objectives or protect national interests.

Mootw - Focus on deterring war, resolving conflict, promoting peace, and supporting civil authorities in response to domestic crisis.

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Arms Control

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A concept that governs any aspect of the following: numbers, types, and performance characteristics of weapon systems(including command and control, logistic support arrangements, and any other intelligence gathering mechanism.)

Example: US military personnel seizing WMD; escorting authorized deliveries of weapons and other materials.

*Vienna Document 1992

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Combat Terrorism

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Involves actions taken to oppose terrorism from wherever the threat. Includes anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism.

*Provisions of Ch II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.

Doctrine for Joint Special Operations - Outside the US

Department of Justise - Federal Bureau of Investigation(within the US)

Department of Transportation - Federal Aviation Administration

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Enforcement of sanctions/maritime intercept operations

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Interdict the movement of certain types of designated items into or out of a nation or specified area.

Example: Operation SUPPORT DEMOCRACY conducted off the coast of Haiti beginning in 1993

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Enforcing Exclusion Zones

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Prohibit specified activities in a specific geographic area. Established in the air(no flying zones), sea(maritime), or on land.

Examples: Operation SOUTHERN WATCH in Iraq 1992, and Operation DENY FLIGHT in Bosnia 1993

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Ensuring Freedom of Navigation and over flight

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Conducted to demonstrate US or international rights to navigate sea or air routes.

*International Civil Aviation Organization

Example: Berlin air corridors that existed from 1948 until 1990, allowing air access to West Berlin

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Humanitarian Assistance

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Relieve or reduce the results of natural or manmade disasters or other endemic conditions.

Example: Operations SEA ANGEL I in 91 and SEA ANGEL II in 92, to provide assistance in the aftermath of devastating natural disasters in Bangladesh

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Military support to civil authorities

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Provide temporary support to domestic civil authorities. Temporary augmentation of air traffic controllers and postal workers during strikes, restoration of law and order in the aftermath of riots, protections of life and federal property, or providing relief after natural disasters.

Examples - Disaster relief during Hurricanes Andrew in Florida and Iniki in Hawaii in 1992.

*Secretary of the Army

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Nation assistance/support to counterinsurgency

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Civil or military assistance(other than HA) rendered to a nation by forces within that nation's territory during peacetime, crises or emergencies, or war, based on agreements mutually concluded between the US and that nation.

Examples: Foreign military sales, Foreign military financing program, International Military Education and Training Program, Economic support fun, and commercial sales.

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Noncombatant evvactuation operations

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Relocate threatened noncombatants from a foreign country. Include evacuation US citizens, and HN citizens.

Examples: EASTERN EXIT 91, when US and foreign national personnel were evacuated from Somalia. QUICKLIFT 91, personnel were evacuated from Zaire

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Protecting of shipping

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US forces provide protections of US flag vessels, US citizens, and their property against unlawful violence in and over international waters. Coastal sea control, harbor defense, port security, counter mine operations, and environmental defense.

Example: Operation EARNEST WILL, the re-flagging old Kuwait ships in 1987

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Recovery operations

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Conducted to search for, locate, identify, rescue, and return personnel or human remains, sensitive equipment, or items critical to nation security.

Example: Operation FULL ACCOUNTING conducted to account for and recover remains of US service members lost during the Vietnam War

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Show of force operations

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Designed to demonstrate US resolve, involve increase visibility to US deployed forces in an attempt to defuse a specific situation that if allowed to continue may be detrimental to US interests or national objectives.

Example: Operation JTF-Philippines was conducted by US forces in 1989 in support of President Aquino during coup attempt against the Philippines government

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Strikes and raids

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Strikes are offensive operations conducted to inflict damage on, seize, or destroy an objective for political purposes. May be used for punishing offending nations or groups, upholding international law, or preventing those nations or groups from launching their own offensive actions. A raid is usually a small-scale operations involving swift penetration of hostile territory to secure information, confuse the enemy, or destroy installations.

Example: Strike; Operation URGENT FURY, conducted on the island of Grenada in 1983

Raid; Operation EL DORADO CANYON conducted against Libya in 1986, in response to the US Service members in Berlin.

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Define Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain (MOUT)

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Military actions that are planned and conducted on a terrain complex where man-made construction affects the tactical options available to the commander.

Marines must be prepared to fight on urbanized terrain. The Marine Corps will continue to play a prominent role in future evacuations of US citizens, conduct of peace, counterinsurgency, and contingency operations centered in urbanized areas

*Desert Shield/Storm
*Restore Hope
*Beirut, Lebanon, Grenada. Somalia
*Urgent Fury
*Eastern Exit

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Stalingrad (1942-1943)

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Cost the Germands dearly and set up conditions for a decisive counteroffensive. Involved large forces and resulted in innovative urban combat techniques and the creations of the highly successful storm groups.

*Greater than 30 days
*Casualties - 1,630,000+

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Berlin (1945)

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Soviet offensive to seize German capital city effectively concluded the last battle of World War II in Europe

*14-30 days
*Casualties - Thousands

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Seoul (1950)

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Following the Inchon landing, US and Republic of Korea forces recaptured the South Korean capital from the North Koreans. The fighting was centered on seizure of street barricades.

*6-13 days
*Marines - 2,383; others, estimated in thousands

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Quanq Tri I and II (1972)

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The capture of Quang Tri, the northern most major city in Vietnam. The NVA overwhelmed the Army, Republic of Vietnam defenders(I). Later, the city was recaptured(II) by a smaller ARVN force using extensive artillery and air support. Major urban battle of Vietnam war

*6-13 days
*Casualties - 30,000

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Beirut (1982)

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The siege of Beirut culminated the the Israeli campaign to evict the Palestine Liberation Organizations from Lebanon.

*30+
*Casualties - 2,300+