Leadership and Strategy Final Exam 2024 with correct answers

Leadership and Strategy Final Exam
2024 with correct answers

Which of the following best describes the comparison Freedman suggests in his Preface?
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 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

Flexibility

Uncertainty - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Flexibility



To which comic strip does Freedman refer to throughout his Preface? - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔
Calvin and Hobbes



Which of the following best describes the most fundamental sense of strategy?
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The effective translation of military means to political ends.



Which of the following is the current American joint doctrinal definition of Strategy?
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ "A prudent idea or set of ideas for employing the instruments of national
power in a synchronized and integrated fashion to achieve national objectives"



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) - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 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

Economic

Military

Legal

Diplomatic - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ 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

5. Policy is a broad course of action of statements of guidance in pursuit of national objectives
- .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Military officers directly make policy in American practice



All of the following are legally required components of National Strategy EXCEPT:

The Theater Strategy

The National Security Strategy

The National Defense Strategy

The National Military Strategy - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The Theater Strategy



All of the following documents provide guidance to the Combatant Commander in developing Theater
Strategies EXCEPT:

The Joint Strategic Campaign Plan

The Continuing Congressional Budgetary Resolution

The National Military Strategy

, The Unified Command Plan

The National Defense Strategy - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ The Continuing Congressional Budgetary
Resolution



All of the following are cited as figures from the Roman world who have provided guidance about
strategy EXCEPT:

Livy

Seneca

Josephus

Homer

Tacitus - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Homer



All of the following are cited as Eastern counterparts to Homer and Thucydides EXCEPT:

Kautilya

Zhuge Liang

Nguyen Giap

Sun Tzu

Cheng Yi - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ Nguyen Giap



All of the following represent Machiavelli's viewpoints EXCEPT:

1. It is better to be loved than feared if one cannot be both

2. The life of the state depends on the excellence of the army

3. Political institutions must be organized in such a manner that they create favorable preconditions for
the function of the military organization

4. The prince must have no other thought or objective but the art of war - .......🔷ANSWERS🔶......✔✔ It
is better to be loved than feared if one cannot be both



The rules identified by Paul Gedeon Joly de Maizeroy's "Theorie del la guerre" include all of the following
EXCEPT:

1. Knowing, but avoiding, what the enemy desires