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1.  What are our country's national interests?

2.  What is the basic national security objective of the United States?

3.  What three things must U.S. defense forces be able to do to satisfy their objectives?

4.  What is the basic objective of U.S. economic policy?

5.  Why must the United States take the lead and carry the heaviest load in the coalition of free states?

6.  What are the three principal phases through which U.S. grand strategy has evolved?

7.  What caused the U.S. emergence from hemispheric isolation?

8.  A)  Why was the United States left with almost no alternative but massive retaliation immediately after World War II? 

B)  When did this strategy prove to be inadequate as a sole alternative?

9.  List the seven key features of present U.S. flexible response strategy.

10.  While military strength is essential, why must the U.S. ensure that all other elements of national power are strong too?

11.  What are the three principal elements of U.S. national military strategy?

12.  Why must U.S. military strategy be a forward strategy?

13.  What are the components of the U.S. triad of strategic nuclear forces?

14.  A)  What do general purpose forces include?

B)  What are they designed to do in peacetime?

C)  What are they intended to do in war?

15.  What is the basic mission of the U.S. Navy in relation to national strategy?

16.  What are the Navy's two basic operational functions?

17.  What system was considered to be the principal stabilizing factor in the strategic nuclear balance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union?