NS3 Test Bank: NS3-M1U1C3 - Grand Strategy

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What book on strategic thinking did Niccolo Machiavelli write?

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The Prince

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Select the answer that corrects the statement. The grand strategy the U.S. follows today is Containment of Communism, which has evolved through two stages--Massive Retaliation and Nuclear Deterrence.

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Change Nuclear Deterrence to Flexible Response

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An alliance for combined action

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Coalition

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A national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries

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Isolationism

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A first-strike attack carried out to destroy an enemy's capacity to respond in response to a threat from a group or country

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Preemptive attack

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A set of beliefs, ideas, doctrines, or opinions of a group or country that is used as a common platform to wage war against another group or country

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Ideological warfare

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Who wrote The Art of War, considered by many to be the first great book on military strategy?

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Sun Tzu

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What was the strategic reason for the Soviet Union to enter the war against Japan in August 1945?

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They knew that Japan would soon be defeated and they wanted to take part in the "spoils of war."

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What general is considered to be the first Western grand strategist?

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Alexander the Great

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Which classic school of grand strategy believes that the main area of East-West confrontation would be across the Arctic Ocean, not the Atlantic or Pacific?

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Aerospace Strategy