CDE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Collateral damage: - Answers-Unintentional or incidental injury or damage to persons or
objects
Collateral Damage Estimation CDE: - Answers-The process of determining the potential
for collateral damage resulting from target engagement
Collateral Damage Estimation Methodology CDM: - Answers-A body of joint standards,
methods techniques and processes to analysis and produce estimates
Why are we concerned with minimizing collateral damage? - Answers-LOW Legal
imperatives, national values, and global criticism
Law of War: - Answers-Requires all feasible precautions to ensure only legitimate
military objects are targeted
Legal Imperatives: - Answers-Distinction
Proportionality
Military Necessity
National values: - Answers-The US gov places a high value on preserving
noncombatant and civilian lives and property
Global Criticism: - Answers-Which could adversely impact military objectives, alliances,
partnerships, or national goals
Operational imperatives: - Answers-Accomplishing mission objectives
Force protection
Collateral damage mitigation
Joint Staff Targeting (J23-4) Responsibilities: - Answers-Responsible for the
development of No-Strike and collateral damage estimation policy and guidance
Joint Technical Coordination Group for Munition Effectiveness JTCG/ME)
Responsibilities: - Answers-Develop, maintain and publish the CER reference tables in
coordination with Joint Staff Targeting
Joint Staff (J7 Joint targeting school) Responsibilities: - Answers-Provide CDE qualified
training for personnel assigned to a position or billet
Combatant Commands (ccmds) Responsibilities: - Answers-Must apply the CDM during
the evaluation of proportionality and military necessity for target engagement while
considering the ROE and higher commanders guidance
, Responsibility of each Service: - Answers-Will ensure organizations that deploy in
support of ccmds has organic CDE capability
DIA: Operational Environment Analysis Division: - Answers-Is responsible for
maintaining a database for religious, cultural, historical, educational and diplomatic and
urban nses
DIA: National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI): - Answers-Responsible for
maintaining data to assess significant human health risks associated with collateral
damage
Defense threat reduction agency (DTRA): - Answers-Maintains data and technical tools
to conduct CBRN plume hazard estimation in support of CDE
Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO): - Answers-Support is required to provide casualty
estimates if waterways and dams are expected to be damaged or destroyed
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL): - Answers-Produces population density tables
that support the ccmds requirement for demographic data in AOR
No-Strike Entities (nses): - Answers-Characterized as civilian and noncombatant and
therefore are protected from attack
NSE facilities: - Answers-Cat 1 is most sensitive (religious, cultural, medical) CAT 2 is
less sensitive (stadiums, parks, markets)
No-Strike List (NSL): - Answers-Objects or entities protected from the effects of military
ops under international law and ROE
NSE Change of Status: - Answers-When a no-strike entity losses its protected status
from the NSL
Dual Use Entities: - Answers-Valid military targets used as both military and civilian
purpose
Restricted Targets: - Answers-Valid target that has specified restrictions placed on the
actions authorized against it due to ops considerations
Human Shields: - Answers-Civilians placed around a valid military target by a combatant
to hinder attack of that target
Collateral Objects: - Answers-Defined as nses that have a geospatial relationship to a
target and may be affect target engagement
Collateral Concerns: - Answers-Objects that are located within final collateral hazard
area after mitigation techniques have been exhausted
Collateral damage: - Answers-Unintentional or incidental injury or damage to persons or
objects
Collateral Damage Estimation CDE: - Answers-The process of determining the potential
for collateral damage resulting from target engagement
Collateral Damage Estimation Methodology CDM: - Answers-A body of joint standards,
methods techniques and processes to analysis and produce estimates
Why are we concerned with minimizing collateral damage? - Answers-LOW Legal
imperatives, national values, and global criticism
Law of War: - Answers-Requires all feasible precautions to ensure only legitimate
military objects are targeted
Legal Imperatives: - Answers-Distinction
Proportionality
Military Necessity
National values: - Answers-The US gov places a high value on preserving
noncombatant and civilian lives and property
Global Criticism: - Answers-Which could adversely impact military objectives, alliances,
partnerships, or national goals
Operational imperatives: - Answers-Accomplishing mission objectives
Force protection
Collateral damage mitigation
Joint Staff Targeting (J23-4) Responsibilities: - Answers-Responsible for the
development of No-Strike and collateral damage estimation policy and guidance
Joint Technical Coordination Group for Munition Effectiveness JTCG/ME)
Responsibilities: - Answers-Develop, maintain and publish the CER reference tables in
coordination with Joint Staff Targeting
Joint Staff (J7 Joint targeting school) Responsibilities: - Answers-Provide CDE qualified
training for personnel assigned to a position or billet
Combatant Commands (ccmds) Responsibilities: - Answers-Must apply the CDM during
the evaluation of proportionality and military necessity for target engagement while
considering the ROE and higher commanders guidance
, Responsibility of each Service: - Answers-Will ensure organizations that deploy in
support of ccmds has organic CDE capability
DIA: Operational Environment Analysis Division: - Answers-Is responsible for
maintaining a database for religious, cultural, historical, educational and diplomatic and
urban nses
DIA: National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI): - Answers-Responsible for
maintaining data to assess significant human health risks associated with collateral
damage
Defense threat reduction agency (DTRA): - Answers-Maintains data and technical tools
to conduct CBRN plume hazard estimation in support of CDE
Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO): - Answers-Support is required to provide casualty
estimates if waterways and dams are expected to be damaged or destroyed
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL): - Answers-Produces population density tables
that support the ccmds requirement for demographic data in AOR
No-Strike Entities (nses): - Answers-Characterized as civilian and noncombatant and
therefore are protected from attack
NSE facilities: - Answers-Cat 1 is most sensitive (religious, cultural, medical) CAT 2 is
less sensitive (stadiums, parks, markets)
No-Strike List (NSL): - Answers-Objects or entities protected from the effects of military
ops under international law and ROE
NSE Change of Status: - Answers-When a no-strike entity losses its protected status
from the NSL
Dual Use Entities: - Answers-Valid military targets used as both military and civilian
purpose
Restricted Targets: - Answers-Valid target that has specified restrictions placed on the
actions authorized against it due to ops considerations
Human Shields: - Answers-Civilians placed around a valid military target by a combatant
to hinder attack of that target
Collateral Objects: - Answers-Defined as nses that have a geospatial relationship to a
target and may be affect target engagement
Collateral Concerns: - Answers-Objects that are located within final collateral hazard
area after mitigation techniques have been exhausted
