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  seaports, transportation infrastructures, and LOCs. Targets include not only
  enemy military forces, but also government agency heads, contractors, and
  private firms involved in transporting troops and materiel into the region or
  supporting enemy forces in any manner.
  13-53. SPF are likely to be used against key political, economic, or population
  centers or tangible targets whose destruction affects intangible centers of
  gravity, rather than against military targets for purely military objectives.
  These efforts often place noncombatants at risk and aim to apply diplomatic-
  political, economic, and psychological pressure. The goal is to present the
  enemy with a nonlinear, simultaneous battlefield. Attacking such targets can
  not only deny the enemy sanctuary, but also weaken his national will, par-
  ticularly if the OPFOR can attack targets in the enemy’s homeland.
  13-54. SPF are capable of conducting the following basic missions:
  • Neutralize weapons of mass destruction and precision weapons.
  • Attack air defense facilities and airfields.
  • Disrupt LOCs.
  • Attack C2 and RISTA facilities.
  • Exploit surprise to disrupt defensive actions.
  • Undermine morale and spread panic.
  • Disrupt enemy power supplies and transportation networks (power
  utilities, POL transfer and storage sites, and internal transportation).
  • Conduct reconnaissance for future ground force operations or for
  airborne and/or amphibious landings.
  • Organize local irregular forces.
  • Prevent efficient movement of enemy reserves.
  • Assassinate important political and military figures.
  • Provide terminal guidance for attacking aircraft, missiles, and precision
  weapons.
  In addition to these basic missions, SPF may have specific missions in
  peacetime, transition to war, and wartime.
  Peacetime Missions
  13-55. During peacetime, the Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff
  carefully coordinates reconnaissance programs geared to meet the intelligence
  requirements of the State and of the OPFOR in war. Aside from SPF troops, it
  maintains agent networks in the target country to support SPF operations.
  Some of these agents actively engage in subversion; others are “sleepers,”
  prepared to act on call in time of war. The SPF Command trains agents to
  operate as political agitators, intelligence collectors, and saboteurs. The
  agents establish residence near military targets such as airports, missile
  bases, arsenals, communications centers, logistics centers and depots, and
  routes used for troop movements. Just before the beginning of hostilities, SPF
  teams link up with agents already operating in the target area.