The Army Irregular Warfare Proponent
at the
U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School

The Army Irregular Warfare Proponent, USAJFKSWCS

Mission

The Irregular Warfare (IW) Proponent serves a Force Modernization function for the US Army; responsible for analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of IW doctrine, leader development, education, training, personnel, and policy to support future Army capabilities and readiness. 
  
Serves as the Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR) for all Integrated US Army IW Doctrine and specific IW Doctrine such as: 

  • Counterinsurgency (COIN) 

  • Counter Terrorism (CT) 

  • Counter Threat Finance (CTF) 

  • Counter Threat Networks (CTN) 

  • Foreign Internal Defense (FID) 

 
Serves as the Office of Coordinating Responsibility (OCR) for: 

  • Civil Affairs Operations 

  • Civil-Military Operations 

  • Military Information Support Operations 

  • Security Cooperation 

  • Security Force Assistance 

  • Stability Operations 

  • Unconventional Warfare 

The Army Irregular Warfare Proponent located at the United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (USAJFKSWCS)

Irregular Warfare Definitions


Joint Definition:

Irregular warfare (IW) is defined as form of warfare where states and nonstate actors campaign to assure or coerce states or other groups through indirect, non-attributable, or asymmetric activities.

– Joint Pubilcation-1, Vol 1 Joint Warfighter

Army Definition:

The overt, clandestine, and covert employment of military and non-military capabilities across multiple domains by state and non-state actors through methods other than military domination of an adversary, either as the primary approach or in concert with conventional warfare.

— Field Manual 3-0 Operations

12 Irregular Warfare Activities

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Civil Affairs Operations (CAO)

Actions planned, coordinated, executed, and assessed to enhance awareness of, and manage the interaction with, the civil component of the operational environment; identify and mitigate underlying causes of instability within civil society; and/or involve the application of functional specialty skills normally the responsibility of civil government. Also called CAO. Also called CAO. (JP 3-57)

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Civil-Military Operations (CMO)

Activities of a commander performed by designated military forces that establish, maintain, influence, or exploit relations between military forces and indigenous populations and institutions by directly supporting the achievement of objectives relating to the reestablishment or maintenance of stability within a region or host nation. Also called CMO. Also called CMO. (JP 3-57)

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Counterinsurgency (COIN)

Comprehensive civilian and military efforts designed to simultaneously defeat and contain insurgency and address its root causes. (JP 3-24)

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Counterterrorism (CT)

Activities and operations taken to neutralize terrorists and their organizations and networks to render them incapable of using violence to instill fear and coerce governments or societies to achieve their goals. (JP 3-26)

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Counter Threat Finance (CTF)

Activities designed to deny, disrupt, destroy, or defeat the generation, storage, movement, and/or use of assets to fund activities that support a threat’s ability to negatively affect US interests. (JP 3-25)

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Countering Threat Networks (CTN)

CTN activities shape the security environment, deter aggression, provide freedom of maneuver within the operational area and its approaches, and, when necessary, defeat threat networks. (SPUB 3-25.1 CTF Handbook)

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Foreign Internal Defense (FID)

Participation by civilian and military agencies of a government in any of the action programs taken by another government or other designated organization to free and protect its society from subversion, lawlessness, insurgency, terrorism, and other threats to its security.  Also called FID. (JP 3-22)

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Military Information Support Operations (MISO)

Planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups, and individuals in a manner favorable to the originator’s objectives. (JP 3-13.2)

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Security Cooperation (SC)

Department of Defense interactions with foreign security establishments to build relationships that promote specific United States security interests, develop allied and partner military and security capabilities for self-defense and multinational operations, and provide United States forces with peacetime and contingency access to allies and partners. Also called SC. (JP 3-20).

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Security Force Assistance (SFA)

The Department of Defense activities that support the development of the capability and capacity of foreign security forces and their supporting institutions. Also called SFA. (JP 3-20) (Security Force Assistance Brigades (army.mil).

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Stability Operations (SO)

An operation conducted outside the United States in coordination with other instruments of national power to establish or maintain a secure environment and provide essential governmental services, emergency infrastructure reconstruction, and humanitarian relief. (ADP 3-0)  (PKSOI (armywarcollege.edu)

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Unconventional Warfare (UW)

Activities conducted to enable a resistance movement or insurgency to coerce, disrupt, or overthrow a government or occupying power by operating through or with an underground, auxiliary, and guerrilla force in a denied area. (JP 3-05)

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