Chapter 20 Multiple choice questions

. During the 1960s, which author's or authors' work most notably articulated the critical view that the new 'science' of theorizing nuclear conflict was an incomprehensible activity that was at best morally questionable and at worst bordered on the absurd?

Thomas Schelling

Herman Kahn

Anatol Rapoport and Philip Green

Colin Gray

. In his 1968 article, 'Strategic Studies and its Critics', Hedley Bull argued that…

strategic studies had become prone to abstract and technical analysis.

the suggestion that strategists were either immoral or amoral was misguided.

strategic studies was a largely positive force in the post-war era that dealt with the realities of world politics, the threat of nuclear war included.

All the answers given are correct.

. According to Tarak Barkawi, 'decolonising' the study of war allows us to…

question the potentially Western-centric underpinnings of strategic thought historically.

productively re-think foundational understandings of, for example, assumed distinctions between war and peace and a focus on 'major wars'.

re-think foundational understandings from the perspective and recurrent experiences of colonial and post-colonial conflict and so-called 'small wars' in the non-West.

All the answers given are correct.

. From a critical perspective, the aspiration of 'defence intellectuals' to provide direct advice to government officials is problematic for all the following reasons, except…

it touches on the unresolved issue of identifying the proper relationship between academics and practitioners.

Anglo-American strategic studies is complicit in the perpetuation of the 'military–industrial complex'.

it undermines the construction and maintenance of Western superiority.

the aspiration towards the status of 'policy science' has encouraged strategists to concentrate on the means rather than the ends of military force.

. All the following statements about theorists associated with the 'third wave' of strategic studies are true, except…

they embraced the abstract nature of game theory and systems analysis.

some theorists associated with the 'third wave' focus on political and strategic culture as a factor in particular 'national styles' of different states with regard to nuclear strategy.

they challenged the concept of rational deterrence.

most theorists associated with the 'third wave' distanced themselves from earlier radical moral critiques of strategic studies.

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