age 1 of 47
Leadership and Strategy FINAL EXAM PREP 2025/2026
ACCURATE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS <RECENT
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Which of the following best describes the comparison Freedman
suggests in his Preface? .......Answer.........Strategists create scripts
much as dramatists, but while dramatists know the outcome of
the play, strategists do not
All of the following are factors assumed to make strategy more
difficult EXCEPT
Ambiguity
Complexity
Fluidity
,age 2 of 47
Flexibility
Uncertainty .......Answer.........Flexibility
To which comic strip does Freedman refer to throughout his
Preface? .......Answer.........Calvin and Hobbes
Which of the following best describes the most fundamental
sense of strategy? .......Answer.........The effective translation of
military means to political ends.
Which of the following is the current American joint doctrinal
definition of Strategy? .......Answer........."A prudent idea or set of
ideas for employing the instruments of national power in a
synchronized and integrated fashion to achieve national
objectives"
,age 3 of 47
Arthur Lykke's framework for strategy includes all of the
following EXCEPT:
Ways (strategic concepts/course of action)
Ends (objectives)
Risk (the gap between ends and means)
Means (resources)
Friction (political resistance from the minority party)
.......Answer.........Friction (political resistance from the minority
party)
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) defines the
instruments of national power as all of the following EXCEPT:
Information
, age 4 of 47
Economic
Military
Legal
Diplomatic .......Answer.........Legal
All of the following statements about the relationship between
policy and strategy are true EXCEPT:
1. Many policy statements border on aspirational in tone
2. Defective policy bolstered by brilliant strategy is still
defective
3. Military officers directly make policy in American practice
4. Policy is expressed as an action to be taken or a condition to
be achieved
Leadership and Strategy FINAL EXAM PREP 2025/2026
ACCURATE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS <RECENT
VERSION>
Which of the following best describes the comparison Freedman
suggests in his Preface? .......Answer.........Strategists create scripts
much as dramatists, but while dramatists know the outcome of
the play, strategists do not
All of the following are factors assumed to make strategy more
difficult EXCEPT
Ambiguity
Complexity
Fluidity
,age 2 of 47
Flexibility
Uncertainty .......Answer.........Flexibility
To which comic strip does Freedman refer to throughout his
Preface? .......Answer.........Calvin and Hobbes
Which of the following best describes the most fundamental
sense of strategy? .......Answer.........The effective translation of
military means to political ends.
Which of the following is the current American joint doctrinal
definition of Strategy? .......Answer........."A prudent idea or set of
ideas for employing the instruments of national power in a
synchronized and integrated fashion to achieve national
objectives"
,age 3 of 47
Arthur Lykke's framework for strategy includes all of the
following EXCEPT:
Ways (strategic concepts/course of action)
Ends (objectives)
Risk (the gap between ends and means)
Means (resources)
Friction (political resistance from the minority party)
.......Answer.........Friction (political resistance from the minority
party)
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) defines the
instruments of national power as all of the following EXCEPT:
Information
, age 4 of 47
Economic
Military
Legal
Diplomatic .......Answer.........Legal
All of the following statements about the relationship between
policy and strategy are true EXCEPT:
1. Many policy statements border on aspirational in tone
2. Defective policy bolstered by brilliant strategy is still
defective
3. Military officers directly make policy in American practice
4. Policy is expressed as an action to be taken or a condition to
be achieved
