Full Spectrum Threat

• Paramilitary forces

• Special Police

• Terrorists

• Militia

• Motorized Infantry

• Mechanized Forces

Forces

Tactics

• Unconventional, terrorist

and guerrilla operations

• Use of sanctuaries

• Dispersed, decentralized,

distributed operations

• High-tempo, limited

duration combat

• Sophisticated ambushes

• Exploit constraints of US

cultural biases

Equipment

• Small arms

• Automatic arms

• ATGMs

• Light-, Medium

Armored Vehicles

• Early Gen Tanks

Potential to

Escalate into

MTW

• Mortars

• Mines

• Info technology

• Night Vision

• WMD

• “Black Eagle”

Major Theater War Risk remains and is enhanced even as SSC’s become more frequent and challenging

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