WorksheetsGrand Strategy
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
What book on strategic thinking did Niccolo Machiavelli write?
The Prince
The Grandest Strategy
On War
The Are of War
Which of the following are the classic schools of strategic thought? Select all that apply
Overseas
Maritime
Continental
Aerospace
Select the answer that corrects the statement: The grand strategy the U.S. follow today is Containment of Communism, which has evolved through two stages--Massive Retaliation and Nuclear Deterrence.
Change Containment of Communism to Nuclear Deterrence
Change Massive Retaliation to Massive Response
Change Nuclear Deterrence to Flexible Response
It is correct as is.
Which of the following points is included in the national strategy against extremist violence and terrorism? Select all that apply
Focus on high-value fixed targets
Break their allegiance to country
Gain timely intelligence
Sideline disaster relief
An alliance for combined action
Contraband
Compromise
Coalition
Custody
A national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries
Independent stance
Detachment
Secede
Isolationism
A first-strike attack carried out to destroy an enemy's capacity to respond in response to a threat from a group or country.
Enemy retaliation
Massive retaliation
Flexible response
Preemptive attack
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
Cerebral planning
Ideological warfare
Extenuation warfare
Psychological warfare
Who wrote The Art of War, considered by many to be the first great book on military strategy?
Alexander the Great
Niccolo Machiavelli
Scipio Africanus
Sun Tzu
What was the strategic reason for the Soviet Union to enter the war against Japan in August 1945?
They knew that Japan would soon be defeated and they wanted to take part in the "spoils of war".
There was no valid strategic reason for the Soviets to enter the war against Japan.
They felt a moral obligation to enter the war after Germany was defeated.
They wanted to free up American and British forces for use in the war against Germany.
What general is considered to be the first Western grand strategist?
Scipio Africanus
Hannibal
Frederick the Great
Alexander the Great
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?
Continental Strategy
Maritime Strategy
Political Strategy
Aerospace Strategy
The use of national power and influence to attain national security objectives is known as what?
Grand Strategy
Grand Prepardness
Continental Strategy
Maritime Strategy
Which of the following is NOT one of the three classic schools of strategic thought?
Aerospace
Continental
Maritime
These are all schools of strategic thought
The Grand Alliance developed in World War II was composed of
Great Britain and the United States
the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union
the United States, Great Britain, and France
Germany, Italy, and Japan
The spearhead of offensive tanks and airplanes designed by the Nazi Germans to overcome defensive superiority was called
continental expansion
Lebeustraum
the blitzkrieg
battlefield tactics
Probably the most significant concept put forward by Karl von Clausewitz in his famous book On War, from the standpoint of modern strategic thought, is that
decision by battle is the first rule of war
statesmanship can be used to better advantage than war
a strategy of exhaustion requires limited wartime to gain the final political objective
war is a continuation of political party carried out by other means
Before the actual outbreak of World War II in 1939, Hitler confirmed Clausewitz's premise that
economic self-sufficiency was the key to victory in war
total mobilization of the nation's manpower and resources should be under the command of a supreme military commander
military operations were only the last resort again an enemy, to be applied only after all other modes of conquest had failed
Western allies would show interest in North Africa as an invasion point to Germany
The Soviet entry into the Pacific War against Japan, as agreed in the Potsdam Conference, enabled them to
assist the Communist takeover in China, and set up a regime in North Korea which ultimately led to the start of the Korean War
make a major military contribution toward the Allied victory over Japan
set the stage for a peaceful Asia after the war
contribute significantly to the Pacific strategy in the war
President Harry S. Truman was first to try Mahan's theory of naval strategy
True
False
