Naval Science 3:  Naval Knowledge Unit 1, Chapter 3 Homework / Extra Credit Assignment.

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1.  What name is used to designate the employment of national power and influence to attain national security objectives?

 

2.  A)  Who was the first great Western strategist?  B)  What did he postulate about the conduct of war?

 

3.  What was Machiavelli's contribution to strategic thinking?

 

4.  What did Karl von Clausewitz emphasize concerning strategy?

 

5.  What are the three classic schools of global strategy?

 

6.  What made World War II so different from previous wars from a strategic standpoint?

 

7.  What did the late entry of Soviet Russia into the Pacific war enable the Communists to accomplish after Japan was defeated?

 

8.  What is meant by Clauswitz's statement concerning military preparedness ("Woe to the Cabinet...")?

                        

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