HIUS 380 Module 7 Exam Questions with Correct Answers Latest Update 2025/2026
Donald Rumsfeld - Answers Secretary of Defense under G.W.Bush, wanted the US to start the
War in Iraq, headed the invasion of Afghanistan, coined the terms "War on Terror," and
"Weapons of Mass Destruction", resigned on own power in 2006 after being displeased with US
strategy in Iraq.
RMA - Answers Revolution in Military Affairs: the increasing use of technology and new
strategies in warfare
TACP - Answers Tactical Air Control Party
Neo-conservatism - Answers A movement advocating less reliance on government, an assertive
foreign policy, and an emphasis on the value of work, thrift, family, and self-restraint
WMD - Answers weapons of mass destruction
Eric Shinseki - Answers Chief of staff forced into retirement by Rumsfield when he suggested
that too few troops had been deployed to Iraq
Anthony Zinni - Answers Marine who argued that it would take a massive number of troops to
hold a post-war Iraq
Tommy Franks - Answers US general who led the United States and its allies in Operation Iraqi
Freedom; did not stand up to Sec. of Defense Rumsfield about his doubts; retired soon after
initial operations ended in Iraq
Running Start - Answers advocated by Tommy Franks; wanted to start with a small force in Iraq
generated start - Answers Franks' strategy involving an air campaign before pushing on to
Baghdad after a slow buildup
TPFDL: - Answers Time Phased Force and Deployment Data List. Identifies types and/or actual
units required to support the operation plan and indicates origin and ports of debarkation or
ocean area.
Operation Desert Fox - Answers - Clinton ordered this operation in 1998, a mission to attack
Iraq's nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten
its neighbors; during this operation Saddam probably got rid of his chemical weapons
Fedayeen - Answers The Arabic word for "self-sacrificer". Plaestinian refugees and other young
Arab men who performed guerilla attackes on Israel; got hold of Saddam Hussein's weapons
caches after U.S. did not allow them to return to Iraqi military
Operation Cobra II - Answers attack into Iraq, not a long preliminary attack;
freeway war - Answers American forces advancing on Baghdad; road-bound war; traffic jams
Donald Rumsfeld - Answers Secretary of Defense under G.W.Bush, wanted the US to start the
War in Iraq, headed the invasion of Afghanistan, coined the terms "War on Terror," and
"Weapons of Mass Destruction", resigned on own power in 2006 after being displeased with US
strategy in Iraq.
RMA - Answers Revolution in Military Affairs: the increasing use of technology and new
strategies in warfare
TACP - Answers Tactical Air Control Party
Neo-conservatism - Answers A movement advocating less reliance on government, an assertive
foreign policy, and an emphasis on the value of work, thrift, family, and self-restraint
WMD - Answers weapons of mass destruction
Eric Shinseki - Answers Chief of staff forced into retirement by Rumsfield when he suggested
that too few troops had been deployed to Iraq
Anthony Zinni - Answers Marine who argued that it would take a massive number of troops to
hold a post-war Iraq
Tommy Franks - Answers US general who led the United States and its allies in Operation Iraqi
Freedom; did not stand up to Sec. of Defense Rumsfield about his doubts; retired soon after
initial operations ended in Iraq
Running Start - Answers advocated by Tommy Franks; wanted to start with a small force in Iraq
generated start - Answers Franks' strategy involving an air campaign before pushing on to
Baghdad after a slow buildup
TPFDL: - Answers Time Phased Force and Deployment Data List. Identifies types and/or actual
units required to support the operation plan and indicates origin and ports of debarkation or
ocean area.
Operation Desert Fox - Answers - Clinton ordered this operation in 1998, a mission to attack
Iraq's nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten
its neighbors; during this operation Saddam probably got rid of his chemical weapons
Fedayeen - Answers The Arabic word for "self-sacrificer". Plaestinian refugees and other young
Arab men who performed guerilla attackes on Israel; got hold of Saddam Hussein's weapons
caches after U.S. did not allow them to return to Iraqi military
Operation Cobra II - Answers attack into Iraq, not a long preliminary attack;
freeway war - Answers American forces advancing on Baghdad; road-bound war; traffic jams
