Deck 7: Technology and Warfare, Ryan Graue

Question 1

According to this chapter, ___________ are defined as 'tools and the ways of using them that either deliver force or defend against the adversary's use of force in battle'.

A) application technologies
B) coordination technologies
C) facilitating technologies
D) communication technologies

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Logistics are an example of…

A) application technologies.
B) coordination technologies.
C) facilitating technologies.
D) communication technologies.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

'Revolutions in military affairs' refer to developments in military technology that have profound consequences for combatants, for the armed forces employing them, and for the ways in which wars are fought.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Militaries most commonly improve their technologies through _______

A) innovation.
B) invention.
C) diffusion.
D) the creation of new ideas, tools, or processes.

Question 5

Military technologies refer solely to 'weapons of war', such as the longbow, the machine gun, the tank, armed unmanned aerial vehicles, and possibly even newer tools like hypersonic glide vehicles.

Question 6

According to this chapter, the primary sources of military technological failure reside in each of the following, *except*…

A) humans.
B) international agreements.
C) organizations.
D) the nature of war.

Question 7

According to this chapter, the ability of a military to innovate or adopt foreign innovations is conditioned by each of the following, *except*…

A) national industrial and intellectual capacities.
B) strategic culture.
C) alliance relations.
D) specific strategic requirements (real or perceived).

Question 8

According to this chapter, there are a wide array of advances in military technology underway, including in the cyber and space domains, in automation, and in the biological sciences, which are likely to change the fundamental role and dynamics of military technology in warfare.

Question 9

Which of the following points supports the claim that the world is currently undergoing a revolution in military affairs (RMA) that will fundamentally change warfighting?

A) The system-of-systems has not yet been used against particularly competent or powerful foes.
B) The technical capacity to detect enemy forces, weapons, and other targets has grown as the collection capacities of satellite, radar, and other sensory technologies have increased in both quantity and quality, resulting in a tsunami of information.
C) It has become clear that 'lifting the fog of war' is very likely a mirage.
D) The RMA has led many potential foes to adopt new technologies and alter their practices in ways that limit the system-of-systems' efficacy.

Question 10

Friction is an example of how the nature of war itself can result in military technological failure.