Unconventional Warfare Pocket Guide/UW Phase VII: Transition

by the United States Army Special Operations Command

UW Phase VII: Transition

SOF may conduct UW until they assist the resistance in removing the hostile power and the indigenous population becomes the government. At this point, it is critical to shift mindsets from defeating the adversary regime to protecting the newly installed government and its security personnel from insurgency, lawlessness, and subversion by former regime elements that attempt to organize their own resistance. Planners should have addressed transition planning in the feasibility assessment that formed the basis of the determination to support the resistance organization.

Activities

• Promote New Government Legitimacy
• Transition from SOJTF to Security Forces Assistance (SFA)
• Demobilize and Integrate Guerrilla Forces, Underground and Auxiliary
• Provide Civil-Military Operations (CMO) Support to New Government
• MISO Themes Promote and Reinforce Civil Governance
• Be Prepared to Conduct FID/COIN
• Shadow Government and Government-in-Exile Transition Responsibility for Civil Governance