Chapter 2 Multiple choice questions

. According to Kimberly Kagan (2006), 'strategy' is defined as…

'a ruse'.

'the art of generalship'.

'the setting of a state's objectives and of priorities among those objectives'.

'a variety of skills useful for executing a military campaign, such as tactics, the construction of fortifications, and siegecraft'.

. The Roman emperors demonstrated strategic decision-making by…

withdrawing legions in one province to deploy them against a perceived greater threat elsewhere.

dealing with repeated incursions of nomadic horsemen by recruiting them into the Roman army.

pacifying conquered peoples by granting their leaders citizenship and sharing with them the benefits of Roman civilization.

All of the given answers are correct.

. True or False: Although there is little evidence of strategy in Western Europe prior to about 1000 CE, from 1000 through the end of the Middle Ages evidence of strategic thinking increased as dynastic entities laid claim to scattered territories which had to be defended.

True

False

. The growth of a state apparatus staffed by professional civil servants led to an extensive transformation of warfare and of strategy in early modern Europe for all the following reasons *except*…

it led to more efficient records of populations.

it was accompanied by the decentralization and homogenization of the structure of states in Europe.

it led to more efficient collection of taxes and more money to make war.

it accompanied a shift from peasant armies to standing armies of professional soldiers.

. The term 'guerilla' (small war) acquired the meaning of people's war or insurgency with the…

Norman conquest of England.

Anglo-Spanish War.

American War of Independence.

French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

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