Deck 9: Geography and Strategy, Daniel Moran

Question 1

The invention of the aeroplane and the mastery of wireless communications make separate consideration of armies, navies, and air forces somewhat artificial because joint warfare is now the ideal.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

______ emphasizes the systematic application of firepower and is often the natural choice for the side with greater material resources, while the aim of ______ is to capitalize on the specific vulnerabilities of a particular adversary, in the hope of achieving disproportionate results, relative to the risk and effort involved.

A) air power; cyberpower
B) attrition; manoeuvre warfare
C) land warfare; nuclear warfare
D) cyberpower; sea power

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Revolutionary insurgencies seek to win quickly before the other side is fully mobilized, while more traditional modern warfare embraces protraction as a source of strategic leverage, by which an opponent may be worn down.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Alfred Thayer Mahan's concept of 'sea power' refers to the synergy that once existed between naval power, commerce, and colonial expansion.

Question 5

Economic warfare remains as significant of a naval mission as it was during the time of Mahan.

Question 6

Originally, strategic bombing conceived of the enemy society as a single entity mobilized for war and did not shy away from inflicting civilian casualties. However, liberal democracies now seek to use precision weapons to disable the government, the armed forces, and the critical infrastructure that supports them, while sparing civilians as much as possible.

Question 7

The following is (are) international legal norm(s) regarding the military use of space.

A) Claims of national sovereignty do not apply beyond Earth's atmosphere.
B) Actual weapons (as distinct from sensors and control systems) cannot be deployed in space.
C) Claims of national sovereignty do not apply beyond Earth's atmosphere and actual weapons (as distinct from sensors and control systems) cannot be deployed in space.
D) None of the other options is correct.

Question 8

Information attacks have recently been reclassified as acts of war.

Question 9

According to Chapter 10 in Strategy in the Contemporary World, powerful navies are unique for all of the following reasons, except

A) in liberal democracies, their capabilities tend to exceed those of armies and air forces.
B) they have a significant proportion of their ships at sea even in peacetime, while armies and air forces only deploy for combat when danger looms.
C) they can respond quickly to trouble, which also allows them to deter certain kinds of trouble from happening in the first place.
D) in contrast to long-range land-based aircraft, they offer a more diverse array of choices, including prolonged observation, delivery of an implied threat, air strikes, and the mounting of an amphibious assault.

Question 10

Because land armies can secure territorial frontiers, they have played an important role in distinguishing sovereign states from other political forms.