THE ASYMMETRIC SKILLS COURSE – (TASC)
OPERATIONAL GAP
Tier II – Asymmetric Practitioner Series
Duration: 4 Days
Many training programs teach individual skills.
Few teach students how to integrate those skills into a functioning operational capability.
The challenge is not learning reconnaissance.
The challenge is learning how reconnaissance supports targeting.
The challenge is not learning tradecraft.
The challenge is learning how tradecraft supports intelligence collection.
The challenge is not learning tactics.
The challenge is understanding how tactical actions support operational objectives.
RAVUS Solutions identified a significant operational gap.
Students often possess individual skills but lack the experience necessary to integrate those skills into a coherent operational framework.
TASC-I was developed to bridge that gap.
COURSE OVERVIEW
The Asymmetric Skills Course – (TASC) serves as the cornerstone of the Asymmetric Practitioner Series and prepares students for participation in advanced validation and performance-based training environments.
Building upon the foundation established in TASC-P, students are introduced to the practical application of unconventional warfare concepts through a combination of classroom instruction, tradecraft exercises, intelligence collection activities, reconnaissance operations, planning events, and simulated combat operations.
Drawing from historic and modern resistance movements, and lessons learned from hybrid conflicts, students learn how small organizations identify opportunities, gather intelligence, develop targets, and create operational effects.
Unlike TASC-P, which introduces foundational concepts, TASC focuses on integration and application.
Students are placed into a dynamic operational environment populated by role players, intelligence sources, resistance elements, and opposing forces.
Throughout the course students must build their understanding of the environment, develop intelligence, establish networks, conduct reconnaissance, and execute operations in support of mission objectives.
The emphasis is repetition.
The emphasis is development.
The emphasis is learning how organizations function before students are challenged during TASC-V.
WHY THIS COURSE EXISTS
The original Asymmetric Skills Course was developed as a highly immersive exercise designed to expose students to unconventional warfare concepts through a continuous scenario.
Through repeated iterations, RAVUS identified a recurring trend.
Students consistently benefited from the immersive environment but often required additional repetitions before they could fully exploit the opportunities available within the exercise.
Intelligence collection improved with repetition.
Tradecraft improved with repetition.
Reconnaissance improved with repetition.
Operational planning improved with repetition.
TASC was developed to provide students additional opportunities to learn, fail, adapt, and improve before advancing to validation-level events.
This course serves as the developmental phase between foundational education and performance-based assessment.
EDUCATE – TRAIN – PERFORM
EDUCATE
Students receive classroom instruction covering unconventional warfare, resistance structures, intelligence operations, targeting, tradecraft, planning, and operational design.
TRAIN
Students develop practical skills through role-player interactions, tradecraft exercises, reconnaissance missions, intelligence collection activities, planning events, and simulated combat operations.
PERFORM
Students apply these skills within a dynamic operational environment where they must continuously adapt to changing information and evolving mission requirements.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon successful completion students will be able to:
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Understand the Seven Phases of Unconventional Warfare
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Understand resistance organization structures
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Conduct intelligence collection operations
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Conduct area studies and environmental analysis
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Conduct reconnaissance operations
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Conduct surveillance operations
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Develop intelligence requirements
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Build target packages
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Conduct operational planning
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Employ tradecraft techniques
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Conduct key leader engagements
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Develop resistance networks
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Plan and execute simulated combat operations
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Operate within denied and contested environments
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Integrate intelligence into operations
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Solve complex operational problems as part of a team
STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Students operate as members of a developing resistance organization inside a dynamic and evolving scenario.
Unlike TASC-V, where students are expected to demonstrate competency with minimal guidance, TASC-I remains an instructional environment.
Cadre actively coach students throughout the exercise.
Mistakes are expected.
Failure is expected.
Learning is expected.
The purpose is to provide students with the repetitions necessary to build confidence and competence before progressing to advanced validation exercises.
Throughout the course, students should expect to:
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Interact with role players
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Develop intelligence networks
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Conduct reconnaissance
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Build target packages
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Plan operations
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Conduct simulated combat operations
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Adapt to changing operational conditions
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Solve complex problems as part of a team
COURSE OUTCOME
Upon successful completion, students will possess a practical understanding of how intelligence, tradecraft, reconnaissance, planning, and tactical operations integrate within a resistance organization.
Students will have participated in a realistic unconventional warfare environment and developed the confidence necessary to operate as part of a small team within contested conditions.
Successful completion qualifies students for attendance in:
The Asymmetric Skills Course – Validation (TASC-V)
TASC develops capability.
TASC-V validates it.