OCS Military History All Lessons(all solved)

War correct answers -Conflict between organized groups with "Unknown Resolve" - Each seeking to impose its will on the other Linear Tactics correct answers - Troops Marched in column formation - 2 to 3 ranks, shoulder to shoulder - Used successive volleys of fire - Purpose was to mass greatest amount of firepower over a given area - Tactics prevailed through WWI Smoothbore Musket correct answers - Used from 1600's to Pre-Civil War - Max Effective Distance of 100m - Highly inaccurate - 3 Rounds per minute Friction correct answers - Any impediment to a commanders ability to wage war - EX: Muddy roads, undisciplined troops, bad weather Strategic Level of War correct answers All of a nation's armed forces in all campaigns Operational Level of War correct answers In-theater forces; Where the battle or war is actually taking place—i.e. Afghanistan Tactical Level of War correct answers Individual field units (division or below) Battle of Bunker Hill correct answers - Revolutionary War - 1775 - Took place near Boston Town on the Charlestown Peninsula - Patriot forces actually occupied and fortified Breed's Hill. - English sacrificed the principals of surprise and maneuver in an effort to publicly defeat and humiliate the American's in a frontal assault. - Patriots held the line, inflicting massive casualties on the British, - Retreated after running dangerously low on ammunition. - Psychological victory for the American's. - Compare with Picket's Charge NYC Campaign correct answers - Revolutionary War - 1776 - British forces landed 32,000 soldiers on the shores of Staton Island NY. - Washington split forces in an effort to meet British forces at both Staton and Long Island - Violated the principal of mass. - British forces continually out-maneuver Washington, forcing him to fall back several times - Washington realized that he did not need to defeat the British only needed to assure his army remain standing. Battle of Trenton correct answers - Revolutionary war - 1776