A History Of Strategy Chapter Four
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- 1.Who was the most important military writer in the years leading up to the French Revolution?
- A.
Jean Jacque Rousseau
- B.
Jean Louis David
- C.
Jacques Antoine de Guibert
- D.
Jacques Déchirer
- 2.Why were Guibert's conceptual innovations so significant?
- A.
They provided Napoleon with a basis for his strategy.
- B.
They permitted much larger armies.
- C.
They created the concept of military professionalism.
- D.
They completed the vision of Machiavelli.
- 3.What geometric concept best illustrates von Bülow's new way of looking at war?
- A.
Lines
- B.
Points
- C.
Circles
- D.
Planes
- 4.What important technological innovation made possible von Bülow's new approach to war?
- A.
Firearms
- B.
Longer-range artillery
- C.
The telegraph
- D.
Maps
- 5.What was the whole point of Napoleonic war?
- A.
To attrition the enemy.
- B.
To annihilate the enemy.
- C.
To cut enemy lines without exposing one's own.
- D.
To push back the enemy lines.
- 6.With what strategist was the maneoeuvre sur les derrieres most associated?
- A.
Von Bülow
- B.
Guibert
- C.
Jomini
- D.
Ney
- 7.How does van Creveld characterize Clausewitz's approach to understanding the first principles of war?
- A.
Deductive
- B.
Inductive
- C.
Both deductive and inductive
- D.
Empirical
- 8.What, according to Clausewitz, is the purpose for studying war?
- A.
To win battles.
- B.
To learn how it can be avoided.
- C.
To understand the nature of Man.
- D.
To avoid reinventing the wheel.
- 9.What does Clausewitz say is the best strategy?
- A.
To be very strong.
- B.
To know the enemy better than yourself.
- C.
To have superior willpower.
- D.
To be flexible.
- 10.What distinguishes Clausewitz from his Western predecessors and contemporaries?
- A.
He had seen actual combat.
- B.
He had actually commanded an army as a general.
- C.
He was a philosopher.
- D.
He was an aristocrat.
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