NS3: Naval Knowledge: United States Strategy

The present U.S. flexible response strategy has at least seven main features, all of which involve

• credible deterrence, collective security, and flexible response.
• military power, and counterinsurgency.
• conventional capability, all-volunteer forces, and massive retaliation.
• isolationism, strategic sufficiency, and negotiation.

U.S. defense forces are maintained to

• support our high standard of living.
• maintain peace for America and the world.
• preserve the physical security and political independence of the United States.
• establish law and justice throughout the world.

In peacetime, general-purpose forces are designed to

• make aggression an impractical, costly, and unattractive option for any potential adversary.
• defeat any aggressor forces.
• prevent escalation of limited war.
• have a quantitative advantage over any potential enemy.

What is America's basic national security interest?

• Military Domination
• Preservation of freedom, institutions, values
• Intelligence
• Homeland Security

What is the mission of the US Navy?

• To destroy the enemy shipping
• To conduct prompt and sustained operations at sea
• To provide transport for the USMC
• To maintain isolation by blockades

Sea control is

• control of the world's oceans where and when needed.
• to create secure operating areas for U.S. naval forces.
• to prevent hostile movements in foreign waters.
• unloading U.S. Marine forces at sea.

Land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and air-delivered nuclear weapons constitute

• the ultimate in modern sophisticated weaponry.
• the U.S. triad of strategic nuclear forces.
• a design to meet any tactical battlefield situation.
• the main components of the balanced U.S. general purpose forces.

As part of our overseas-deployed forces the Sixth and Seventh Fleets are located in the following areas:

• North Atlantic and Mediterranean.
• Arctic and North Atlantic.
• the Mediterranean and the Western Pacific
• the Antarctic and the South Atlantic.

Within the national military strategy, the U.S. Navy is responsible for

• strategic nuclear deterrence.
• deployment of overseas forces.
• security of the sea lines of communication.
• All of the answers are correct.

The U.S. strategy of limited interventionism, which emerged with the victory in the Spanish-American War of 1898 and lasted through 1948, featured

• increased participation in world affairs.
• acquisition of territory overseas.
• reliance on the U.S. Navy as the major military force.
• All of the answers are correct.