TBS Phase 4 Exam Guide 2026: Tactics,
Questions & Answers
RISS
Correct Answer: Recon, Isolate, Secure a foothold, Seize the Objective
SOSR
Correct Answer: Suppress, Obscure, Secure, Reduce
Types of Security Methods
Correct Answer: Passive: barriers, serpentine, lights, walls
Active: armed guards, checkpoints, search areas
Guardian Angels
Correct Answer: Marines in over-watch positions to provide situational awareness.
Should have NO other responsibilities
Vehicle Checkpoints
Correct Answer: Deliberate, Hasty, Snap
Insurgency
Correct Answer: organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify, or
challenge political control
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, Terrorist
Correct Answer: One who uses violence or threats to create fear and intimidate
(generally political, religious, or ideological)
Mobilization Methods Insurgency
Correct Answer: Persuasion, Coercion, reaction to abuses, foreign support, apolitical
motivations
Elements of Insurgency
Correct Answer: Leadership, Guerilla Units, Auxiliary Forces (economic and other
support systems), Underground
Dynamics of an Insurgency
Correct Answer: Leadership, objectives, ideology and narrative, environment,
external support, internal support, phasing and timing, organizational patterns
Phases of an Insurgency
Correct Answer: Latent and Incipient
Guerilla Warfare
War of Movement
Endstate of COIN
Correct Answer: Establish Rule of Law
Direct COIN Strategy
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Questions & Answers
RISS
Correct Answer: Recon, Isolate, Secure a foothold, Seize the Objective
SOSR
Correct Answer: Suppress, Obscure, Secure, Reduce
Types of Security Methods
Correct Answer: Passive: barriers, serpentine, lights, walls
Active: armed guards, checkpoints, search areas
Guardian Angels
Correct Answer: Marines in over-watch positions to provide situational awareness.
Should have NO other responsibilities
Vehicle Checkpoints
Correct Answer: Deliberate, Hasty, Snap
Insurgency
Correct Answer: organized use of subversion and violence to seize, nullify, or
challenge political control
1
, Terrorist
Correct Answer: One who uses violence or threats to create fear and intimidate
(generally political, religious, or ideological)
Mobilization Methods Insurgency
Correct Answer: Persuasion, Coercion, reaction to abuses, foreign support, apolitical
motivations
Elements of Insurgency
Correct Answer: Leadership, Guerilla Units, Auxiliary Forces (economic and other
support systems), Underground
Dynamics of an Insurgency
Correct Answer: Leadership, objectives, ideology and narrative, environment,
external support, internal support, phasing and timing, organizational patterns
Phases of an Insurgency
Correct Answer: Latent and Incipient
Guerilla Warfare
War of Movement
Endstate of COIN
Correct Answer: Establish Rule of Law
Direct COIN Strategy
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