NS-3, Naval Knowledge, Unit 1 Chapter 3: Grand Strategy and Preparedness

The use of national power and influence to attain national security objectives is known as what?
1. Grand Strategy
2. Grand Preparedness
3. Continental Strategy
4. Maritime Strategy
5. Aerospace Strategy
In the earliest days of man's history, what factor dominated military operations?
1. Manpower
2. Intelligence
3. Training
4. Length of their swords
5. Weapons
Who wrote "The Art of War ", considered by many to be the first great book on military strategy?
1. Sun Tzu
2. Alexander the Great
3. Scipio Africanus
4. Niccolo Machiavelli
5. Karl von Clausewitz
What general is considered to be the first Western grand strategist?
1. Alexander the Great
2. Scipio Africanus
3. Hannibal
4. Julius Caesar
5. Frederick the Great
What book, written in the early 1800's, is generally acclaimed as the most influential dissertation on strategy ever published?
1. On War by Karl von Clausewitz
2. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
3. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
4. The Art of War by Antoine Jomini
5. History of the Art of War within the framework of political history by Hans Delbrück
Which of the following is NOT one of the three classic schools of strategic thought?
1. These are all schools of strategic thought.
2. None of these represents one of the three classic schools of strategic thought.
3. Maritime
4. Continental
5. Aerospace
Alfred Thayer Mahan was the leading strategist for which of the classic schools of grand strategy?
1. Maritime Strategy
2. Continental Strategy
3. Aerospace Strategy
4. Undersea Warfare Strategy
5. Political Strategy
Sir Halford J. MacKinder was the leading strategist for which of the classic schools of grand strategy?
1. Continental Strategy
2. Aerospace Strategy
3. Maritime Strategy
4. Political Strategy
5. Undersea Warfare Strategy
Which of the following countries would be a part of the "Outer" or "Insular Crescent" as defined in Sir Halford J. MacKinder's theories on the Continental School of grand strategy?
1. The United States
2. Italy
3. Russia
4. Egypt
5. Germany
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?
1. Aerospace Strategy
2. Continental Strategy
3. Maritime Strategy
4. Political Strategy
5. Undersea Warfare Strategy
Which conflict was the first of the great coalition wars of the twentieth century?
1. World War I
2. The Spanish-American War
3. The Sino-Russian War
4. World War II
5. The Korean War
Which of the following Allied Forces strategic conferences of World War II did NOT include the Soviet Union?
1. Casablanca
2. Moscow
3. Yalta
4. Teheran
5. Potsdam
What term below best describes the strength or power base from which to launch the ideas and take the actions essential to the implementation of the grand strategy?
1. Preparedness
2. Responsiveness
3. Democracy
4. Heartland
5. Political center
What was the strategic reason for the Soviet Union to enter the war against Japan in August 1945?
1. They knew that Japan would soon be defeated and they wanted to take part in the "spoils of war."
2. They felt a moral obligation to enter the war after Germany was defeated.
3. The Soviets never did enter the war against Japan.
4. There was no valid strategic reason for the Soviets to enter the war against Japan.
5. They wanted to free up American and British forces for use in the war against Germany.
What U.S. Army Air Corps General proved that bomber aircraft could sink battleships?
1. Billy Mitchell
2. Giulio Douhet
3. Erich Ludendorff
4. Alexander de Seversky
5. Jimmy Doolittle
The conflict between the West and the Soviet Union during the Cold War followed which school of classic grand strategy most closely?
1. The Continental School
2. The Maritime School
3. The Aerospace School
4. The Undersea Warfare School.
5. The Political School
In the early part of the twentieth century, what grand strategy did President Teddy Roosevelt choose to follow in order to have the United States emerge as a world power?
1. Maritime Strategy
2. Continental Strategy
3. Aerospace Strategy
4. Undersea Warfare Strategy
5. Political Strategy
Which nineteenth-century theorist's writings were closely followed by leading U.S. and Confederate Generals during the American Civil War?
1. Antoine Jomini
2. Karl von Clausewitz
3. Hans Delbrück
4. Karl Marx
5. Alfred Thayer Mahan
Modern military strategic thought began through the intense study of the campaigns of what military leader?
1. Napoleon Bonaparte
2. Alexander the Great
3. Adolph Hitler
4. Julius Caesar
5. Fredrick the Great
What major historical era resulted in an ever-increasing list of innovations that would facilitate warfare on a global scale?
1. The Industrial Revolution
2. The era of Ancient Strategies
3. The era of Flight
4. The Computer Revolution
5. The Bronze Age