H100 Key Concepts in Military History and Strategy Questions with Correct Answers Graded
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History - Answers The experience or events of the past explained through the intertwining of
General Patterns and Specific Contingency.
Historical Discipline - Answers Incorporates Vicarious Experience and Disciplined Imagination to
investigate and explain past events or experiences.
War - Answers The use of Violence to achieve Political Ends.
Fog and Friction - Answers Characteristics of War.
Conventional War - Answers A violent struggle between nation-states or coalitions, and alliances
of nation-states, fought with conventional forces.
Irregular War - Answers Characterized by its objectives of influencing a population or exhausting
the enemy's will, employing or combatting guerrillas, insurgents, terrorists, commandos, and/or
clandestine or covert forces.
Strategic Level of War - Answers The level of warfare at which a nation determines national or
multinational guidance, develops strategic objectives, then develops and commits national
resources to achieve those objectives.
Operational Level of War - Answers The level of warfare in which campaigns and operations are
planned, conducted, and sustained to achieve operational objectives to support achievement of
strategic objectives.
Tactical Level of War - Answers The level of warfare at which forces plan and execute battles
and engagements to achieve military objectives.
Attrition - Answers The gradual reduction of the enemy's means.
Annihilation - Answers The rapid or instantaneous destruction of the enemy's means, ideally in a
single, climactic battle.
Exhaustion - Answers The gradual destruction of the enemy's will.
Combined Arms - Answers Coordinated use of infantry, cavalry, and artillery.
Joint Operations - Answers Coordinated use of land, sea, and/or air forces.
Combined Operations - Answers Multinational/coalition operations.
G1 - Answers Personnel.
G2 - Answers Intelligence.
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History - Answers The experience or events of the past explained through the intertwining of
General Patterns and Specific Contingency.
Historical Discipline - Answers Incorporates Vicarious Experience and Disciplined Imagination to
investigate and explain past events or experiences.
War - Answers The use of Violence to achieve Political Ends.
Fog and Friction - Answers Characteristics of War.
Conventional War - Answers A violent struggle between nation-states or coalitions, and alliances
of nation-states, fought with conventional forces.
Irregular War - Answers Characterized by its objectives of influencing a population or exhausting
the enemy's will, employing or combatting guerrillas, insurgents, terrorists, commandos, and/or
clandestine or covert forces.
Strategic Level of War - Answers The level of warfare at which a nation determines national or
multinational guidance, develops strategic objectives, then develops and commits national
resources to achieve those objectives.
Operational Level of War - Answers The level of warfare in which campaigns and operations are
planned, conducted, and sustained to achieve operational objectives to support achievement of
strategic objectives.
Tactical Level of War - Answers The level of warfare at which forces plan and execute battles
and engagements to achieve military objectives.
Attrition - Answers The gradual reduction of the enemy's means.
Annihilation - Answers The rapid or instantaneous destruction of the enemy's means, ideally in a
single, climactic battle.
Exhaustion - Answers The gradual destruction of the enemy's will.
Combined Arms - Answers Coordinated use of infantry, cavalry, and artillery.
Joint Operations - Answers Coordinated use of land, sea, and/or air forces.
Combined Operations - Answers Multinational/coalition operations.
G1 - Answers Personnel.
G2 - Answers Intelligence.
