Warrior Skills Level 1 - Leader Development for Army Professionals

Performance Steps
(3) Includes support that takes place off the battlefield.
(4) Other examples of unarmed combatants—medical teams, media
(local, national, international), non-governmental organizations/private voluntary
organizations (NGOs/PVOs), Trans-national corporations, foreign government
and diplomatic personnel, internally displaced persons (IDPs), transients, local
populace.
c. Identify examples of hybrid threats.
A hybrid threat is the diverse and dynamic combination of regular and irregular
forces as well as criminal elements all unified to achieve mutual benefitting
effects. Hybrid threats combine state based, conventional military forces,
sophisticated weapons, command and control, and combined arms tactics, with
attributes associated with insurgent and terrorist organizations. Hybrid threats are
characterized by the combination of regular forces governed by international law,
military tradition and custom with irregular forces that are unregulated and as a
result act with no restrictions about violence or targets for violence. This could
include militias, terrorists, guerillas and criminals. The combination of regular
and irregular forces and the ability of an entity to combine and transition between
regular and irregular forces and operations to capitalize on perceived
vulnerabilities, which make hybrid threats, in particular, effective. To be a
hybrid, these forces will cooperate in the context of pursuing their own internal
objectives. Criminal elements may steal parts for a profit while at the same time
compromising the readiness of an adversary's combat systems. Militia forces
may defend their town or village with exceptional vigor as part of a complex
defensive network. Some hybrid threats will be a result of a state(s) sponsoring a
non-state actor.
d. Identify the following types of noncombatants:
(1) Media personnel.
(2) Humanitarian relief organizations.
(3) Criminal organizations.
(4) Multinational corporations.
(5) Private security organizations.
(6) Other noncombatants and civilian population support.
(7) Information warfare elements.
Evaluation Preparation: Setup: This task may be evaluated at the end of
OE training as well as during a field training exercise.
Brief Soldier: Tell Soldier that he will be evaluated about their ability to
identify the operational variables that make up PMESII-PT, the cultural
impacts, the combatant and/or noncombatant actors, and hybrid threats
within an OE.
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