Chapter 4 Multiple choice questions

. According to this chapter, strategy…

has the same meaning as 'tactics'.

has the same meaning as 'operational art'.

is about how to array limited resources, space, and time to achieve one's aims against a competitor.

is a concept that is pertinent to statecraft only in times of war.

. In Clausewitz's 'paradoxical trinity', passion, probability and chance, and reason correspond to which three groups in society?

The church, civil society, and the military

The people, the church, and civil society

The people, the military, and the government

The church, the legislature, and civil society

. According to Clausewitz, all the following statements describe characteristics of 'limited' war, *except*…

they are fought over territory.

they are fought to overthrow the adversary's regime or achieve unconditional surrender.

soldiers and state leaders must translate battlefield success into political leverage over the adversary.

they end through formal or tacit negotiation and agreement between the warring parties.

. Which strategist(s) believed that 'to subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill'?

Sun Tzu

Carl von Clausewitz

Both Mao Zedong and Carl von Clausewitz

Both Sun Tzu and Carl von Clausewitz

. The concrete manifestation of Mao Zedong's blueprint for a successful insurgency against a stronger power is the following three-phase approach to war:

It begins with offensive attacks by the revolutionary movement, progresses to a period in which the revolutionary movement is on the strategic defensive, and then culminates with the defeat of the adversary through unconventional military manoeuvres.

It begins with guerrilla warfare, progresses to a period in which the revolutionary movement is on the strategic defensive, and then ends gradually over an extended period as the adversary eventually concedes its inability to defeat the revolutionary force.

It begins with guerrilla warfare, progresses to a series of conventional military battles, and then ends gradually over an extended period as the adversary eventually concedes its inability to defeat the revolutionary force.

It begins with the revolutionary movement on the strategic defensive, builds to a strategic stalemate characterized by intensified guerrilla warfare, and culminates in a strategic counteroffensive that witnesses the defeat of the adversary in a decisive conventional battle.

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