U.S. Army War College | STRATEGIC DPC 15-01 Quiz 2 completed with correct solutions/Answers 2025/2026

U.S. Army War College | STRATEGIC DPC 15-01 Quiz 2 completed with correct solutions/Answers 2025/2026 Question 1 2 Points Question 1 Maxim 32 states that the supreme virtue in strategy is: 1. risk aversion; that is, care to avoid undesired consequences from behavior. 2. unwavering focus on desired goals and their anticipated benefits. 3. appreciation that individual world leaders are not uniformly rational actors. 4. belief that the strategic utility of nuclear weapons lies only in deterrence. Question 2 2 Points Question 2 Which of the following statements is MOST true? 1. Grand Strategy is primarily a wartime endeavor, and while all instruments of national power are utilized, the focus is on the military. 2. Grand Strategy is a foreign policy topic and as such need not take domestic issues like health care and the national debt into consideration. 3. Grand Strategy is in constant tension between being an ecological discipline, requiring a holistic appreciation of the global environment and political power; and a reductionist discipline, paring the exceedingly complex political environment down to a coherent system with a prioritized order. 4. Grand Strategy is developed for long-term relevance, so once developed is unchanging until the next time it is reviewed. Question 3 2 Points Question 3 What is the "City on the Hill"? 1. Washington D.C. 2. San Francisco, CA 3. A metaphorical title of a Grand Strategy where the nation withdraws from international entanglements and puts itself in an unassailable position, as if it were literally on top of a mountain 4. A metaphorical title of a Grand Strategy where the nation restrains itself from other nations' affairs, but becomes an example for democracy and rule of law, as if it were a beacon on a hill This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :19:59 GMT -05:00 2 Points Question 4 Which of the following did Ben Lombardi NOT address as a contributing strategic assumption: 1. Imposed assumptions 2. Strategic culture 3. Institutional process 4. Causal assumptions Question 5 2 Points Question 5 How would Wilson's Grand Strategy best be characterized? 1. It was a realist adjustment from a prosperous but isolated nation to a nation so powerful - both economically and militarily - that it could not be detached from world affairs. 2. It was an idealist statement that America would dedicate itself to the defense of democracy wherever and whenever needed. 3. It was a realist concession for the need to check the growing power of the Soviet Union and Japan, as well as the threat of a revanchist Germany. 4. It was an idealist pact to fulfill American promises to Britain and cooperate to end all war. This study source was downloaded by from CourseH on :19:59 GMT -05:00 Powered by TCPDF ()