Chapter 6 Multiple choice questions

. According to this Chapter, the field of strategic culture examines the influence on decisionmaking and behaviour in foreign and security policy of each of the following cultures that exist within a security community, *except*…

national culture.

military culture.

financial culture.

organizational culture.

. All the following statements about the sources of strategic culture are true, *except*…

some sources of strategic culture are enduring, while others are relatively short-lived.

some sources of strategic culture are material, while others are nonmaterial.

macro-environmental factors loom large as material sources of culture.

sources of strategic culture include factors such as physical and political geography, but exclude intersubjective factors such as national memories created by major formative experiences.

. The current scholarship on strategic culture is focused on which of the following areas?

Implementing more rigorous analytical methodologies

Disaggregating strategic cultures to study the interplay of their component parts

Conducting comparative cross-cultural research

All the given answers are correct.

. The earliest examples of writings on how culture influences military styles, battlefield conduct, and preferred theories of victory date from…

antiquity.

the Enlightenment.

the Napoleonic wars.

the cold war.

. Strategic culture is…

a stand-alone explanation for strategic behaviour.

a useful addition to realist explanations for strategic behaviour.

an approach that focuses primarily on material and structural factors to explain or predict behaviour on the world stage.

an approach that assumes that nations, and the institutions within their strategic community, make decisions based on objective factors rather than on their perception of facts.

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