CGSC F100 EXAM SCRIPT 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT
◉ What is the difference between soft and hard power? Answer: Soft
power persuades through incentives; hard power persuades through
coercion
◉ What is the difference between Ends, Ways, and Means? Answer:
Ends-What is to be achieved, Ways-how objectives are to be achieved;
Means- with what to accomplish ends
◉ What are the major national documents that inform the combatant
commander and staff? Answer: NSS, NDS, NMS, JSCP: Global
Integration Framework (GIF), Integrated Contingency Plan (ICP)
◉ What are the different rolls and responsibilities between the SedDef
and the CJCS? Answer: SecDef is more directive and executes
authorities; CJCS is the principle military advisor to the president
◉ What is the difference between identifying risk and analyzing risk?
Answer: Risk identification: we did not allocate enough resources; risk
analysis: there is an imbalance between the ends, ways, and means
, ◉ What is difference between CCPs and Contingency Plans? Answer:
CCPs: shape the OE and achieve national objectives; Contingency plans:
identify how the command might respond in the event of a crisis or the
inability to achieve an objective
◉ What is the difference between Security Assistance (SA) and Security
Force Assistance (SFA)? Answer: SA: authorized by law to provide
defense equipment, training, and services to foreign countries; SFA:
DOD activities support development of foreign security forces
◉ What are Unified Commands? Answer: Commands established to
conduct broad, continuing missions requiring execution by significant
forces of tow or more military departments to achieve national security
objectives
◉ What are specified combatant commands? Answer: Forces from one
military department but may include units and staff representations from
other military departments
◉ What are the three levels of war? Answer: Strategic, Operational,
Tactical
◉ What is difference between TACON and OPCON command
relationship? Answer: TACON: local direction and control of
movements or maneuvers to accomplish a mission; OPCON:
authoritative direction for all military operations and joint training
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 100% CORRECT
◉ What is the difference between soft and hard power? Answer: Soft
power persuades through incentives; hard power persuades through
coercion
◉ What is the difference between Ends, Ways, and Means? Answer:
Ends-What is to be achieved, Ways-how objectives are to be achieved;
Means- with what to accomplish ends
◉ What are the major national documents that inform the combatant
commander and staff? Answer: NSS, NDS, NMS, JSCP: Global
Integration Framework (GIF), Integrated Contingency Plan (ICP)
◉ What are the different rolls and responsibilities between the SedDef
and the CJCS? Answer: SecDef is more directive and executes
authorities; CJCS is the principle military advisor to the president
◉ What is the difference between identifying risk and analyzing risk?
Answer: Risk identification: we did not allocate enough resources; risk
analysis: there is an imbalance between the ends, ways, and means
, ◉ What is difference between CCPs and Contingency Plans? Answer:
CCPs: shape the OE and achieve national objectives; Contingency plans:
identify how the command might respond in the event of a crisis or the
inability to achieve an objective
◉ What is the difference between Security Assistance (SA) and Security
Force Assistance (SFA)? Answer: SA: authorized by law to provide
defense equipment, training, and services to foreign countries; SFA:
DOD activities support development of foreign security forces
◉ What are Unified Commands? Answer: Commands established to
conduct broad, continuing missions requiring execution by significant
forces of tow or more military departments to achieve national security
objectives
◉ What are specified combatant commands? Answer: Forces from one
military department but may include units and staff representations from
other military departments
◉ What are the three levels of war? Answer: Strategic, Operational,
Tactical
◉ What is difference between TACON and OPCON command
relationship? Answer: TACON: local direction and control of
movements or maneuvers to accomplish a mission; OPCON:
authoritative direction for all military operations and joint training
