6 Written Questions

1. Physical components and structures of the system
2. Increase in the willingness of moderate Muslims to speak out as a key measure of the effectiveness of disaggregation.
3. Limit between the insurgent movement and its environment
4. Key indicator of population confidence in security forces and in the long term the viability of the counterinsurgency effort
5. Highest level of cultural capability, ability to use culture as a tool in an insurgent system
6. Ecosystems that have adaptational evolutionary dynamics

6 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Day to Day events in the insurgency
   1. Boundaries
   2. Cultural Understanding
   3. Boundary Interactions
   4. Initiative
2. More advanced language capability and ability to fit in with local groups and to perform effectively while immersed in local culture
   1. Cultural Leverage
   2. Cultural Awareness
   3. Boundary Interactions
   4. Cultural Understanding
3. Waste products or results that emerge from insurgent action
   1. Nodes
   2. Links
   3. Outputs
   4. Inputs
4. Social systems, Energetically open but organizationally closed, Self-organizing systems, non-equilibrium, GREATER THAN THE SUM OF THEIR PARTS!
   1. Insurgent Theaters
   2. Initiative
   3. Insurgencies as Systems
   4. Cultural Awareness
5. Define patterns of interaction in the insurgency
   1. Links
   2. Inputs
   3. Outputs
   4. Nodes
6. Indicators that allow progress to be tracked at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels, and most important to provide an understanding of the key pressure points
   1. Insurgent Theaters
   2. Cultural Awareness
   3. Boundary Interactions
   4. Measures of Effectiveness

5 True/False Questions

1. Inputs → Energy and matter the insurgency takes up from its environment

   True        False

2. Initiative → Energy and matter the insurgency takes up from its environment

   True        False

3. Economic Activity → Final measure of effectiveness, relates to which side holds the ________ in the war

   True        False

4. Cultural Awareness → Highest level of cultural capability, ability to use culture as a tool in an insurgent system

   True        False

5. Elements of Insurgent Systems → Organic systems compromise 7 different elements

   True        False