Sgts Course Warfighting Exam
Questions and Answers
Marine Corps Ethos - Correct Answers -Honor
Courage
Commitment
Mental Forces - Correct Answers -Mental forces provide individuals and groups with the
ability to:
•Grasp complex battlefield situations
•Think critically
•Make effective estimates, calculations, and decisions
•Devise tactics and strategies
•Develop plans
Physical Forces - Correct Answers -The physical characteristics are easily seen,
understood, and measured. Commodities such as equipment capabilities, supplies,
seized physical objectives, force ratios, losses of materiel or life, terrain lost or gained,
and prisoners or materiel captured are tangible and considered physical forces.
Moral Forces - Correct Answers -The moral forces in warfighting pertain to the
psychological and intangible forces. Examples include the following:
•National and military resolve
•National and individual conscience
•Emotion
•Fear
•Courage
•Morale
•Leadership
•Espirit
Understanding the people is particularly important in COIN. Which of the following
descriptions best identifies the socio-cultural factor of a society? - Correct Answers -A
society is a population whose members are subject to the same political authority, who
occupy a common territory, have a common culture, and share a sense of identity.
The focus of COIN operations generally progresses through three stages that can be
envisioned using which of the following medical analogies? - Correct Answers -Initial
stage: stop the bleeding;
Middle stage: inpatient care—recovery;
Late stage: outpatient care—movement to self-sufficiency.
, Which of the following requires combatants to differentiate between enemy combatants,
who represent a threat, and noncombatants, who do not? - Correct Answers -
Discrimination
In counterinsurgency operations, the moral purpose of combat operations is
____________. - Correct Answers -To secure peace
What is counterinsurgency? - Correct Answers -It is the military, paramilitary, political,
economic, psychological, and civic actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency.
What is the definition of war as defined by MCDP 1, Warfighting? - Correct Answers -A
violent clash of interests between or among organized groups characterized by the use
of military force
Physical, moral, and mental forces - Correct Answers -Forces that influence warfare
whether they are tangible or intangible
Uncertainty - Correct Answers -Unknowns about the enemy and the environment
experienced in battle
Disorder - Correct Answers -Plans go awry, instructions are misunderstood, comms fail,
mistakes and unforeseen events occur
Friction - Correct Answers -The force that resists all action and saps energy
Human dimension - Correct Answers -Behavior exemplified by the clash of wills and the
related complexities, inconsistencies, and peculiarities that characterize human
behavior
Fluidity - Correct Answers -A condition that creates a continuous, fluctuating flow of
activity
War uses all power elements that one group can bring against another to achieve the
policy objective. This includes: - Correct Answers -Diplomatic means
Information means
Military means
Economic means
3 Levels of warfare - Correct Answers -Strategic, Operational, Tactical
Initiative - Correct Answers -Initiative is the ability to dictate terms of the conflict and
force the enemy to meet on these terms. While the striking power of the offense is
usually associated with initiative, a good defense also seizes the initiative. The offense
and defense are not completely separate attitudes; each contains the other. The
Questions and Answers
Marine Corps Ethos - Correct Answers -Honor
Courage
Commitment
Mental Forces - Correct Answers -Mental forces provide individuals and groups with the
ability to:
•Grasp complex battlefield situations
•Think critically
•Make effective estimates, calculations, and decisions
•Devise tactics and strategies
•Develop plans
Physical Forces - Correct Answers -The physical characteristics are easily seen,
understood, and measured. Commodities such as equipment capabilities, supplies,
seized physical objectives, force ratios, losses of materiel or life, terrain lost or gained,
and prisoners or materiel captured are tangible and considered physical forces.
Moral Forces - Correct Answers -The moral forces in warfighting pertain to the
psychological and intangible forces. Examples include the following:
•National and military resolve
•National and individual conscience
•Emotion
•Fear
•Courage
•Morale
•Leadership
•Espirit
Understanding the people is particularly important in COIN. Which of the following
descriptions best identifies the socio-cultural factor of a society? - Correct Answers -A
society is a population whose members are subject to the same political authority, who
occupy a common territory, have a common culture, and share a sense of identity.
The focus of COIN operations generally progresses through three stages that can be
envisioned using which of the following medical analogies? - Correct Answers -Initial
stage: stop the bleeding;
Middle stage: inpatient care—recovery;
Late stage: outpatient care—movement to self-sufficiency.
, Which of the following requires combatants to differentiate between enemy combatants,
who represent a threat, and noncombatants, who do not? - Correct Answers -
Discrimination
In counterinsurgency operations, the moral purpose of combat operations is
____________. - Correct Answers -To secure peace
What is counterinsurgency? - Correct Answers -It is the military, paramilitary, political,
economic, psychological, and civic actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency.
What is the definition of war as defined by MCDP 1, Warfighting? - Correct Answers -A
violent clash of interests between or among organized groups characterized by the use
of military force
Physical, moral, and mental forces - Correct Answers -Forces that influence warfare
whether they are tangible or intangible
Uncertainty - Correct Answers -Unknowns about the enemy and the environment
experienced in battle
Disorder - Correct Answers -Plans go awry, instructions are misunderstood, comms fail,
mistakes and unforeseen events occur
Friction - Correct Answers -The force that resists all action and saps energy
Human dimension - Correct Answers -Behavior exemplified by the clash of wills and the
related complexities, inconsistencies, and peculiarities that characterize human
behavior
Fluidity - Correct Answers -A condition that creates a continuous, fluctuating flow of
activity
War uses all power elements that one group can bring against another to achieve the
policy objective. This includes: - Correct Answers -Diplomatic means
Information means
Military means
Economic means
3 Levels of warfare - Correct Answers -Strategic, Operational, Tactical
Initiative - Correct Answers -Initiative is the ability to dictate terms of the conflict and
force the enemy to meet on these terms. While the striking power of the offense is
usually associated with initiative, a good defense also seizes the initiative. The offense
and defense are not completely separate attitudes; each contains the other. The
