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It is a direct reporting unit to USPACOM and takes its policy guidance from the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict . The defence force was fighting a low-intensity war against the liberation movements . In the absence of substantive political and economic reforms , low-intensity conflict is likely to continue for the foreseeable future . This finding could have important implications in the determination of health risk in situations when humans are exposed to low-intensity magnetic fields for prolonged periods of time . Although the current military occupation of Iraq falls in a gray area that defies easy definition , with a level of instability that many define as low-intensity conflict rather than peace enforcement , many of the activities that the U.S. military has undertaken there also have been undertaken in past peacekeeping operations .