HIUS 380 Quiz 5,6,7,8

HIUS 380 Quiz 5 Cold War/Vietnam

1. What General encouraged his people to think outside the box and avoided the obsession with numbers that had prevailed in Vietnam?
2. What offensive in January 1968 nearly destroyed the North Vietnamese Army?
3. What was the name of the American victory in Vietnam during the Presidency of Richard Nixon that essentially represented a public relations disaster?
4. The term describing the meetings of civilian leadership that met in the White House to discuss targeting during the Vietnam war was
5. The President who had along with his staff achieved success using “Gradual Escalation” during the Cuban Missile Crisis was:
6. The major U.S. victory that saw an overwhelming U.S. victory of only 155 loses in relation to thousands of the enemy but saw the enemy increasingly controlling the strategic initiative by determining where and when the fight would occur was at?
7. What major battle in Vietnam during 1967 saw the enemy fighting and firing from the hip as they carried wounded comrades?
8. The younger advisors favored by President John F. Kennedy and derisively called by the military “Whiz Kids” included a statistical manager who advocated civilian control over the military. Who was this?
9. Who said “the Vietnamese people are the prize” characterized the approach to fighting the Vietnam War:
10. The General who stood up to President Eisenhower and prevented the deployment of troops to Vietnam was:
11. President Eisenhower’s “New Look” placed an emphasis on:
12. The President who supported Ngo Van Diem in South Vietnam despite the Geneva Accords and the requirement for an election was:
13. Place the following Vietnam War battles in correct order:
14. Who advocated using enclaves and then “search and destroy” missions to win the war in Vietnam?
15. The legislation authorizing the President “to take all necessary measures to repel armed attack . . . “would be known as:

HIUS 380 Quiz 6 A Premier Force

1. What had General Colin Powell been tasked in Vietnam with investigating?
2. The Operation in Grenada representing the first major American military effort after Vietnam was called:
3. How long did the air campaign that ultimately deposed Serbian President Slobodon Milosoevic take?
4. The General whose doctrine bore his name and and prevented the spin-off of missions by focusing on the Iraqi Army was the:
5. The Operation in Panama in 1989 designed to take justice to a local warlord was:
6. One of the unintended and disastrous results of the air war over Kosovo occurred on April 12, 1999 when an Air Force F-15E accidentally struck:
7. The initial no-fly zone over Bosnia patterned like the ones in Iraq eventually changed its mission into one of direct intervention through bombing. What name described this new mission?
8. One of the lessons to come out of the Operation in Grenada involved inter service operations, the need to improve joint warfare and to strengthen the power of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff while organizing and dividing the world into five zones. What was the name of this legislative change?
9. The military strategy following Vietnam that placed a greater emphasis on new communications capabilities and greatly affected by the dramatic victories of Israel in the 1967 and 1973 wars was the:
10. The computer and the growth of the Internet and the network-centric efficiency of the American military in the 90’s created an unprecedented capability known in a type of “language” called the:
11. Place the following in correct order:
12. In 1973 General William E. DePuy created a headquarters to anticipate future needs according to doctrine called:
13. Which of the following weapons systems had been built according to doctrine and proved themselves in the first Iraq War?
14. The Operation in Somalia in 1992 initially concerned with providing food but eventually involved in attempting to “snatch” a local “strongman” was:
15. The new technology utilizing round-the-clock satellite TV coverage during the NATO led Operation in the former Yugoslavia was:

HIUS 380 Quiz 7 The Global War on Terror

1. What idea represented the use of overwhelming air power for a month before the ground assault against Iraq in 1991?
2. What American military operation do the authors of the book maintain in large measure convinced Saddam Hussein to destroy or get rid of his weapons of mass destruction?
3. By 2010 General David Petraeus would implement a new strategy in Afghanistan similar in name and scope to the strategy proposed by General Winfield Scott during the Civil War. What was the name of this new strategy?
4. An attempt to fight a counterinsurgency in Afghanistan saw the creation of small teams of service men attempting to improve living conditions throughout Afghanistan in a manner reminiscent of British India called:
5. What somewhat unique type of warfare ensued during the second war in Iraq that facilitated a simultaneous right-left punch?
6. What was the term used in the book to describe the increased accuracy and coordination of American supporting arms (artillery and air for example) enabled commanders to open and close kill zones in Iraq?
7. Marines attacked and cleared a key Pashtun province in southern Afghanistan hoping for another “Sunni Awakening.” What was the name of this key city?
8. Who was the General who openly expressed concerns about troop numbers to be used in Iraq before the invasion and subsequently faced ostracization and retired shortly thereafter:
9. The advance into Baghdad and the nearby airport there saw the demonstration of American force in an almost desperate attempt to persuade the Iraqis to surrender to outnumbered and exhausted American troops. What was the name of this final move?
10. The primary concern of potential terror weapons saw American intelligence go from reactive to proactive in an attempt to prevent the deployment of what weapons?
11. The name for a distance-activated bomb or mine device that occurred in Iraq was the:
12. By 2006 President George W. Bush selected a General popular with academia and somewhat media to initiate a new strategy in Iraq that involved more American troops. Who was the general and what was the name of the operation described in the textbook?
13. Despite many mistakes, the American military in Iraq and Afghanistan had learned an important lesson from the Vietnam era and continued to rotate troops in units. Is this statement true or false?
14. By 2011 President Obama would attempt to yet again use the charismatic nature of General Petraeus in Afghanistan. What may explain the different results in Afghanistan from Iraq?
15. What American military operation would use a very short bombing campaign to support the advance through Iraq in 2003?

HIUS 380 Quiz 8 The War Continues and Cyber-Hybrid Warfare

1. The increased use of Special Operations within the context of the war in the Greater Middle East increasingly saw the use of what command?
2. The first use of cyber space to inflict physical damage on the Iranian nuclear arms program was:
3. What areas of the world have the Russians recently been involved in?
4. seemed to offer a democratic alternative to the backwards leadership of the nations in the CENTCOM area as responsibility began to spread.
5. The form of cyber attack compared into the text to a line of musket fire putting out a maximum amount of firepower with a minimum of accuracy and control is the:
6. A precise cyber-attack compared in the text to a frontier woodsmen with rifle would be:
7. In 2011 Operation ODYSSEY DAWN used American military power in an attempt to eliminate:
8. The Department of Defense now consists of nine unified commands, of these how many are geographic and how many are considered functional?
9. The Chinese government encouraged non-governmental computer smart citizens or ____________ to attack American websites in mass.
10. The author argues the American military is in the process of fighting a “generational war” where?
11. Where have the Chinese have a great interest in obtaining minerals and controlling the electromagnetic spectrum?
12. What did the Global War on Terror became known as after 2009?
13. What American military units have participated in partnerships with mentor armies in African nations in an attempt to prevent insurgencies?
14. In 1986 Operation EL DORADO CANYON used American military power in an attempt to eliminate:
15. What movement appeared to have emerged from the ashes of Al Qaeda?