C200 Strategy Exam
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War - Answer socially sanctioned violence to achieve a strategic purpose
® CWITZ- continuation of politics by other means
Strategy - Answer idea or set o ideas for employing the instruments of national power in
a synchronized and integrated fashion to achieve theater or multinational objectives
Clausewitz Trinity - Answer Reason (the government), chance (the military), and passion
(the people)
Grand Strategy - Answer An overarching vision that defines and guides a nation's
foreign policy
exists at a level above those strategies intended to secure particular ens and above te
use of military power ALONE to achieve strategic objectives... aims to secure and
advance a nation's long-term, enduring core interests over time... based on the national
leadership's strategic vision of America's role in the world
The Character of Warfare - Answer what it looks like at any given time
Nature of Warfare - Answer constants that remain a part of conflict of opposing wills
regardless of context
NSS - Answer National Security Strategy
National Military Strategy - Answer CJCS
supports the aims of the NSS and implements the NDS.
It describes the Armed Forces' plan to achieve military objectives in the near term and
provides a vision for maintaining a force capable of meeting future challenges
A document approved by the CJCS for distributing and applying military power to attain
NSS and NDS objectives.
GEF - Answer Guidance for Employment of the Force
GEF merges Contingency
Planning Guidance and Security Cooperation Guidance into one document that provides
,comprehensive, near-term planning guidance.
The GEF provides Presidential and SecDef politico-military guidance.
The President approves the contingency planning guidance
contained in the GEF and approves SecDef's issuance of the GEF.
The GEF is guided by the UCP and NDS and forms the basis for strategic policy
guidance, campaign plans, and
the Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP).
JCSP - Answer guidance to CCDRs, Service Chiefs, CSA directors, applicable DOD
agencies, DOD field activity directors, and the CNGB to accomplish tasks and missions
based on near-term military capabilities.
The JSCP is signed by the CJCS and implements campaign, contingency, and posture
planning guidance reflected in the GEF
National Strategy for Homeland Security - Answer signed by the President,
provides national direction to secure the homeland through a comprehensive
framework
for organizing the efforts of federal, state, local, tribal, and private organizations whose
primary functions are often unrelated to national security
National defense strategy - Answer signed by SecDef,
outlines DOD's
approach to implementing the President's NSS.
set of overarching defense objectives that guide DOD's security activities and provide
direction for the NMS
National security strategy - Answer A document approved by the President of the United
States that expresses vision, what the U.S. stands for, and a sensing of how the
instruments of national power will be arrayed.
Goldwater-Nichols Act - Answer 1. Reworked the command structure of the United
States military and the joint force
2. Streamlined the military chain of command- now runs from President through
Secretary of Defense bypassing the service chiefs
3. The service chiefs were assigned to an advisory role to the President, NSC, and
Secretary of Defense
, National Security Act - Answer 1947;
enacted to back up the Truman Doctrine;
established the National Security Council to advise the president, established the
Central Intelligence Agency to gather information abroad and engage in covert
activities in support of the nation's security, began the processes of transforming the
old War and Navy Depts into the Department of Defense, and combined the leadership
of the army,navy, and air force under the Joint Chiefs of Staff; showed Truman's and
Americans' fears of communist invasion after WWII
Combatant command strategy - Answer ® CCRDs product campaign plans and outline
their vision for integrating and synchronize military activities and operations with other
instruments o national power to attain strategic ends
Bridge national strategic guidance and joint operational planning as it guides the
development o Combatant Command Campaign Plans (CPP)
Combatant command campaign strategy - Answer ® CCDR Campaign Plan
® Flows from the CCDR's theater strategy and provides the action plan to implement
the strategy
® Deal with deviations from strategy as branches requiring contingency plans
cooperation - Answer mutually beneficial relationships between strategic actors with
similar, compatible interests
Competition below armed conflict - Answer two or more strategic actors view one
another as competitors that have incompatible interests
armed conflict - Answer use of force as a primary means by which a strategic actor
seeks to satisfy ts interests or react to provocation
Observe - Answer least active strategic approach and is often appropriate when threats
to interests are minimal
Accommodate - Answer acceding to others' interests to attain the desired strategic
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Compromise - Answer reached when parties adjust conflicting or opposing positions to
achieve a mutually agreed POV end state without violating each other's core values
Shape - Answer appropriate when threats are not immediate or severe and an
opportunity creates a chance to mold the general strategic situation in one's favor
Persuade - Answer entails trying to convince another actor through force of argument
Enable - Answer occurs when interests align to improve he capability of an actor
already taking action that will produce or benefit one's strategic end
Latest Update
War - Answer socially sanctioned violence to achieve a strategic purpose
® CWITZ- continuation of politics by other means
Strategy - Answer idea or set o ideas for employing the instruments of national power in
a synchronized and integrated fashion to achieve theater or multinational objectives
Clausewitz Trinity - Answer Reason (the government), chance (the military), and passion
(the people)
Grand Strategy - Answer An overarching vision that defines and guides a nation's
foreign policy
exists at a level above those strategies intended to secure particular ens and above te
use of military power ALONE to achieve strategic objectives... aims to secure and
advance a nation's long-term, enduring core interests over time... based on the national
leadership's strategic vision of America's role in the world
The Character of Warfare - Answer what it looks like at any given time
Nature of Warfare - Answer constants that remain a part of conflict of opposing wills
regardless of context
NSS - Answer National Security Strategy
National Military Strategy - Answer CJCS
supports the aims of the NSS and implements the NDS.
It describes the Armed Forces' plan to achieve military objectives in the near term and
provides a vision for maintaining a force capable of meeting future challenges
A document approved by the CJCS for distributing and applying military power to attain
NSS and NDS objectives.
GEF - Answer Guidance for Employment of the Force
GEF merges Contingency
Planning Guidance and Security Cooperation Guidance into one document that provides
,comprehensive, near-term planning guidance.
The GEF provides Presidential and SecDef politico-military guidance.
The President approves the contingency planning guidance
contained in the GEF and approves SecDef's issuance of the GEF.
The GEF is guided by the UCP and NDS and forms the basis for strategic policy
guidance, campaign plans, and
the Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan (JSCP).
JCSP - Answer guidance to CCDRs, Service Chiefs, CSA directors, applicable DOD
agencies, DOD field activity directors, and the CNGB to accomplish tasks and missions
based on near-term military capabilities.
The JSCP is signed by the CJCS and implements campaign, contingency, and posture
planning guidance reflected in the GEF
National Strategy for Homeland Security - Answer signed by the President,
provides national direction to secure the homeland through a comprehensive
framework
for organizing the efforts of federal, state, local, tribal, and private organizations whose
primary functions are often unrelated to national security
National defense strategy - Answer signed by SecDef,
outlines DOD's
approach to implementing the President's NSS.
set of overarching defense objectives that guide DOD's security activities and provide
direction for the NMS
National security strategy - Answer A document approved by the President of the United
States that expresses vision, what the U.S. stands for, and a sensing of how the
instruments of national power will be arrayed.
Goldwater-Nichols Act - Answer 1. Reworked the command structure of the United
States military and the joint force
2. Streamlined the military chain of command- now runs from President through
Secretary of Defense bypassing the service chiefs
3. The service chiefs were assigned to an advisory role to the President, NSC, and
Secretary of Defense
, National Security Act - Answer 1947;
enacted to back up the Truman Doctrine;
established the National Security Council to advise the president, established the
Central Intelligence Agency to gather information abroad and engage in covert
activities in support of the nation's security, began the processes of transforming the
old War and Navy Depts into the Department of Defense, and combined the leadership
of the army,navy, and air force under the Joint Chiefs of Staff; showed Truman's and
Americans' fears of communist invasion after WWII
Combatant command strategy - Answer ® CCRDs product campaign plans and outline
their vision for integrating and synchronize military activities and operations with other
instruments o national power to attain strategic ends
Bridge national strategic guidance and joint operational planning as it guides the
development o Combatant Command Campaign Plans (CPP)
Combatant command campaign strategy - Answer ® CCDR Campaign Plan
® Flows from the CCDR's theater strategy and provides the action plan to implement
the strategy
® Deal with deviations from strategy as branches requiring contingency plans
cooperation - Answer mutually beneficial relationships between strategic actors with
similar, compatible interests
Competition below armed conflict - Answer two or more strategic actors view one
another as competitors that have incompatible interests
armed conflict - Answer use of force as a primary means by which a strategic actor
seeks to satisfy ts interests or react to provocation
Observe - Answer least active strategic approach and is often appropriate when threats
to interests are minimal
Accommodate - Answer acceding to others' interests to attain the desired strategic
ENG
Compromise - Answer reached when parties adjust conflicting or opposing positions to
achieve a mutually agreed POV end state without violating each other's core values
Shape - Answer appropriate when threats are not immediate or severe and an
opportunity creates a chance to mold the general strategic situation in one's favor
Persuade - Answer entails trying to convince another actor through force of argument
Enable - Answer occurs when interests align to improve he capability of an actor
already taking action that will produce or benefit one's strategic end
