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T or F The number of coordinating, special, and personal principal staff officers and their corresponding staff sections varies with different command levels?
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TRUE.
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A staff section is a grouping of staff members by area of expertise under a Coordinating, ___ , or Personal staff officer.
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Special
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Which staff officers advise, plan, and coordinate actions within their areas of expertise or warfighting function?
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Coordinating Staff
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Which staff officers exercise planning and supervisory authority over designated special officers?
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Coordinating Staff
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What are the characteristics of a Staff Officer?
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competent, flexible, exercise initiative, self confident, applies critical thinking and creative thinking, adaptive, cooperative, communicates effectively
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A ___ staff works under the commander’s immediate control
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Personal
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The ___ or ____ is the commander’s principal assistant for directing, coordinating, supervising, and training the staff except in areas the commander reserves.
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Chief of Staff (COS) / Executive Officer (XO)
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Who acts as the XO to the COS? This person also plans conferences, directs and coordinates itinerary for distinguished guests, monitors and prepares for all social events for the CDR, Dept CDR or COS.
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Secretary of General Staff ( SGS)
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At the Division level or higher, the Coordinating staff has a Chief of Fires, Chief of ____ and a Chief of ____.
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Protections / Sustainment
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What is the primary product that the staffs produce?
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Information Analysis
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Which Coordinating Staff section is responsible for coordination for security investigations of local hire linguists, and supervising the command and personnel security programs?
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G-3/ S-3 Intelligence
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Which Personal Staff Officer serves as a personal assistant to a general officer by providing for his well being and security, preparing and organizing schedules and activities, meeting and hosting the general officer’s visitors, coordinates protocol activities, and supervises other personal staff members?
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Aide-de Camp
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Who is responsible for advising the Commander on the command’s overall welfare and state of discipline?
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Inspector General
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Are the ACOS,G1,S1 through ACOS,G9,S9 staffs Coordinating Staffs or Special Staffs?
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Coordinating Staffs
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Can a Regiment have a Chief of Fires? Why?
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No, Regiments, Brigades, and Battalions are not authorized Chief of Fires, only Division or Higher.
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Which staff position is responsible for manning, personnel services, personnel support, and headquarters mangement.
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S-1
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Which staff position is responsible for Intelligence readiness, intelligence tasks, intelligence synchronization, other intelligence support, counterintelligence, and support to security programs
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S-2
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Which staff position is responsible for Training, operations and plans, and force development and modernization, synchronizes the operation as a whole for the commander
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S-3
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Which staff position is responsible for Sustainment Plans and Operations, Supply, Maintenance, Transportation, Services, Staff Planning and Supervison, and operational contract suppport
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S-4
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Which staff position is responsible for Planning for operations for the mid- to long-range planning horizons. (Future Plans)
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S-5
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Which staff position is responsible for communications, electomagnetic spectrum operations, and networks within the unit's area of operation
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S-6
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Which staff position is responsible for planning, coordinating, and intergrating inform and influence activities of the command
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S-7
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Which staff position is responsible for all financial management (resource management and finace operations) within theater
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S-8
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Which staff position is responsible for all matters concerning civil affairs and responsible for enhancing the relationship between Army forces and the civil authorities and people in the AO.
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S-9
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Operational Environment is a composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect what 2 things?
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Employment of the military forces and bear on the decisions of the unit commander.
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What are the 7 Operational Variables to consider when conducting an analysis of an Operational Environment?
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PMESII-PT Political, Military, Economic, Social, Information, Infrastructure, Physical Environment, Time
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What are the three main aspects of the Social variable within an Operational Environment?
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Cultural, religious, and ethnic makeup
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The Infrastructure variable within the Operational Environment is composed of what?
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The basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society.
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What are the 4 categories of Nation-State Actors?
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Core, Transition, Rogue, and Failed or Failing
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What are some examples of Non-State Rogue Actors?
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insurgents, terrorists, drug-trafficking or other criminal organizations.
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Which actors may not be hostile to us, but can get in the way or otherwise affect our ability to accomplish our mission?
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Non- State, Third Party Actors
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Non-State Third Party Actors can be combatant or non combatants. Give examples of these actors..
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refugees, internally displaced persons (IDP), or the international relief organizations that are trying to provide aid to members of the local populations.
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What do you call individuals who are authorized by government authority to engage, may be a member of a regular or irregular armed force, has a command, have fixed distinct emblems, carry arms openly, conduct ops per LOW, and if captured are entitled to POW status?
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Lawful Combatants
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What do you call individuals who participate in hostilities without governmental authorization or under international law to do so?
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Unlawful Combatant
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What do you call diverse and dynamic combination of regular and irregular forces as well as criminal elements all unified to achieve mutually benefiting effects?
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Hybrid Threat
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What is a composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of the military forces and bear on the decisions of the unit commander
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Operational Environment
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describes the cultural, religious, and ethnic makeup within an OE.
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Social Variable (OE)
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explores the military capabilities of all relevant actors (to include terrorist, insurgents, militia's) within a given OE
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Military Variable (OE)
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encompasses individual behaviors and aggregate phenomena related to the production, distribution, and consumption of resources.
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Economic Variable (OE)
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describes the nature, scope, characteristics, and effects of individual, organizations, and systems that collect, process, disseminate, or act on information
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Information Variable (OE)
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describes the distribution of responsibility and power at all levels of governance or cooperation.
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Political Variable (OE)
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composed of the basic facilities, services, and installations needed for the functioning of a community or society
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Infrastructure Variable (OE)
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influences military operations in terms of decision-cycles, operational tempo, and planning horizons.
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Time Variable (OE)
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defines the physical circumstance and conditions that influence the execution of operations throughout the domains of air, land, sea, and space
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Physical Environment (OE)
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__________ is a sum of all qualities that make you who you are; values, beliefs, words and actions.
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Character
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________ shapes our behavior, helps people understand their experiences, and influences our priorities.
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Beliefs
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_____conduct is related to character development because it requires one to do the right thing for the right reason.
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Ethical
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_____ are convictions people hold true
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Beliefs
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What Professional obligations, imposed on members of the profession of arms, influence their character development?
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Oath of Enlistment, Officer and Civilian Oath of Office, Code of Conduct, Warrior Ethos, and laws- orders & regulations
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Give three examples of laws, orders and regulations that pertain to your Professional obligations
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Uniform Code of Military Justice, military regulations, Law of War
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Which documents in history define the fundamental values of our nation?
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Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and the Bill of Rights
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What are truth, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, justice and fairness, peace and security, equality and opportunity, responsibility?
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Basis for National Values
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Something we should feel committed to do, but are not required to do is a Professional ________ .
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Obligation
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What are the 7 Army Values?
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Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage
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Which Professional Obligation commits me to support and defend the Constitution, bear true faith and allegiance to the US, properly and competently discharge assigned duties, and to obey orders and laws?
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Enlisted Oath of Office
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Which Professional Obligation commits me to obedience to the lawful orders?
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Officer and Civilian Oath
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What are the 3 steps used by leaders to develop character in subordinates?
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Education, Reinforcement, Internalization
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Adopting the values set as your own and having their behavior consistent with the value set, is the goal of which Character Developmental Process?
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Internalization
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Leaders educating subordinates and setting the example to gain understanding of values and their worth is done in this step of the Character Development Process.
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Education
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Fill in the blank: Leaders ________behavior and subordinates comply based upon a personal desire to do what is right during the ______ step in the Character Development Process
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reinforce / Reinforcement
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What are the principals, standards, and qualities considered essential for successful Army leaders?
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Army Values
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What generates moral principles to apply to any given moral problem?
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Values
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What piece of equipment was developed during WWI to enable Soldiers to cross no man’s land in a safer manner than a full frontal assault?
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Tanks
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In which WWI Battle did the British lose over 52,000 men due to their lack of adjusting doctrine to modern technology and over 1,250,000 Soldiers sacrificed their lives?
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Battle of Somme 1Jul – 28 Nov 1916 (tank was introduced)
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True or False: Leaders readily adjusted to the advances in technology
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False.
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What were some of the ways leaders failed to adjust to advances in technology?
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charges against machine guns, feel more willpower would earn victory, attempts to redefine old concepts of courage & valor, cavalry charges, static trench warfare
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What was the most devastating weapon used by the infantry during WWI?
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The machine gun
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When did the German Army first used the chemical weapon chlorine gas?
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At the Battle of Ypres, 22Apr-25 May 1915, against the French Army
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Select two answers = Which airplanes were used by both French and British Army’s? A. Voisin III&V2
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B. Junkers D1 and JF-IIXX C. Farman MF-7 & MF-II D. None of the Above A and C
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In which French City did the Germans focus their 1916 attempt at achieving decision through a battle of attrition?
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Verdun
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When did Fort Douaumont surrender to the Germans?
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25 Feb 1916 during the Battle of Verdun
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What was the German War plan that called for an attack passing through Belgium to capture Paris?
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Schlieffen Plan
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What was the primary weapon used by infantry soldiers during WWI?
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Bolt Action Rifle
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Fill in the blank: The European nations expected the War that broke out in 1914 to be _____ and _____ and end in a tolerable decision.
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short / glorious
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T or F. The development and improvement of weapons, aircraft, and other technologies produced the most significant change in our modern Army, more than any other War in American history
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True
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Name some technological advancements from WWI.
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chemical weapons, airplanes, tanks, advanced artillery, machine guns, Springfield bolt action rifle, submarines/torpedoes, radio, July 1918 WO)
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What are the 4 reasons for War?
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Militarism, alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism
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When was the start and finish of WWI?
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1914 – 1918
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Which American General insisted that American Soldiers will be led by American officers into battle and not merely a body count to replace missing Soldiers from other Armies?
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General John Pershing
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Which Battle had drainage ditches destroyed causing the land to flood which caused Soldiers to die, and tanks and locomotives to sink in the sand?
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Battle of Passchendale
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What is the name of the Treaty that the Germans signed under protest?
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The Versailles Treaty
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What colorless, odorless gas which caused severe burning to the skin, blisters, eye pain, vomiting, internal & external bleeding and lung damage was used to cause over 1 million deaths?
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Mustard gas in 1917
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Between the wars, how did Germany prepare for modern warfare?
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They trained in mock tanks and flew out of modified civilian airfields
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Fill in the blank. The US extended assistance to the Soviet Union through it’s _____ _____ ____.
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Lend Lease Act
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Which weapon became the centerpiece around which battles were planned? A. rockets B. atomic bomb C. the tank
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D. Airborne Operations C. The Tank
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Which weapon was not developed during WWII? A. Nerve agent B. the atomic bomb C. the torpedo D. jet Fighter
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C. The torpedo
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Which Battle signified the turning point in the Pacific Theatre?
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The Battle of Midway
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Which Operation won temporary control at Dunkirk, allowing the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force and thousands of French Soldiers?
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Operation Dynamo
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Which Operation was the 1941 joint service German plan, designed to destroy British industry?
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Operation Seal Lion
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Fill in the blank. The Japanese did not complete the job at ____ _____ on 7 Dec 1941 because US aircraft carriers were at sea
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Pearl Harbor
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Fill in the blank. ________ was the British and French policy towards Hitler’s Germany in 1930’s
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Appeasement
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What was the primary infantry weapon of the US in WWII?
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M1 Garrand
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Fill in the blank. The Army used the initial failure at ______ __ to learn from and improve battlefield performance?
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Kasserine Pass
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The seizure of what island in 1945 was at a staggering human cost of 110,000 deaths, and a total of 215,000 casualties & deaths?
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Okinawa
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Fill in the blank. The defeat in the skies over Britain in 1941 signaled to the world that the Germans were not ________.
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Omnipotent
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Where did the Germans discover that Military Operations in Urbanized Terrain (MOUT) deprived them of the tactical flexibility and mobility that were hallmarks of the Wermacht?
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Stalingrad
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Fill in the blank. The Germans entered the USSR as conquerors, compelling the average Soviet citizen to defend Stalin’s regime in _________ _______.
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Operation Barbarosa
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Fill in the blank. The largest tank battle of WWII was the Battle of _____.
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Kursk
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Who was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force and in command of Operation Overlord?
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Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower
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What was Operation Overlord?
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D-Day
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By what percentage did the Allied air campaign attributed the German Luftwaffe pilot strength in Jun 1944 over the previous January?
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99%
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What did Truman decide was the quickest way to end WWII and stop the bloodshed?
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drop the atomic bomb
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The three allied leaders met and decided what the world would look like after the war. What was the name of this meeting?
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Yalta Convention
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What was the military doctrine of the new German Army?
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Blitzkrieg - lightning war
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What was the Invasion of the USSR code named?
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Operation Barbarossa.
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What was the Winter battle in 1945 where the Allied forces fought a battle of attrition with the Nazis along a 50-70 mile front?
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Battle of the Bulge
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What was the significance of Bastogne?
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This Belgian town was the hub for seven major roadways and a railway. This crossroads was crucial to Hitler's plan.
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What is DA Pam 600-3
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Commisioned Officer Professional Development and Career Management
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What is DA Pam 611-21
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Military Occupational Classification and Structure (MOS)
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What is NGR 600-101?
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Warrant Officers- Federal Recognition and Personnel Actions
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Who are responsible for WO professional development?
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HQDA-HRC and NGB, Proponents (Branch Schools), Commanders and Supervisors, and the Individual WO.
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What are the sources for Recruiting Command for WO?
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qualified civilians, commisioned officers, enlisted Soldiers, other services, and between components
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Graduation from WOCS yields an appointment to WO1 without?
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MOS
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MOSQ comes from technical certification through?
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Warrant Officer Basic Course (WOBC)
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ARNG and USAR WO must complete WOBC within?
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Two Years
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Who appoints WO1 and is contingent upon completion of WOCS?
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Secretary of the Army
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Appointment to WO1 in the USAR, with concurrent call to AD under a
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6 year obligation volunteer service agreement
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ARNG is a state and ARNGUS is a Federal status as a
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Reserve of the Army
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WO1's on the ADL will automatically be intergrated into the RA after?
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Completion of two years on ADL
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Who is responsible for ensuring record accuracy.
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The Individual soldier
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Who maps development path for WO
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The individual WO
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How long may a Regular Army CW5 stay in the Active Army?
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30 years or age 62 whichever comes first
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For Active Component may you decline RA intergration
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No
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RC Warrant Officers serve until?
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released normally age 62 or early separation
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What is the AGR mandatory retirement?
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20 years active officer service or 30 years total active service whichever comes first
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Selective retention boards come at a minimum of how many years?
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20 years
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Prior to comission CPT and Higher may be appointed to?
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CW2
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What are the levels of Army training for Warrant Officers?
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Pre-appointment (WOCS) -WOC
Entry (WOBC) - WO1 Advanced (two parts) - CW2 Senior (WOSC) - CW3 Master (WOSSC) - CW4 |
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What are some types of educational assistance availanle to WO?
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VEAP, TA, GI BILL, AERS
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How aften should you review your ORB
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Annually
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Who uses ORB's?
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Selection Boards
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Which selection of the OMPF is not acessible by promotion selection boards?
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Restricted data
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Where would an OER be filed
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Under Performance
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Where would a DD Form 214 be filed?
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Under Service
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How often are DA photo's required?
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Promotion to CW2 and every 5 years after
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What are six responsibilities of an individual WO?
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1. Participate in your career development
2. Identify long term objectives 3. Keep your records current 4. Communicate with your commander/Supervisor and Career Manager 5. Seek Responsibility 6. Continue Self development |
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What is the Distance Learning Course must WO complete after promotion to CW2?
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The Action Officer Development Course (131-P00)
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What are the education goals of a Warrant Officer?
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Assolciate degree and Baccalaureate degree
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What is AERS?
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Army Education Requirements System
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What are the alternate education opportunities?
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Dantes
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What is an ORB
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Officer Record Brief
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What does the ORB Contain
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Summary of your Career
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What does the OMPF contain
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Performance Data, Service Data, and Restricted Data
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What is CMIF?
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Career Management Individual Folder
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Who maintains the CMIF?
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Active and USAR only (ARNG STARC/JFH have similiar files)
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Up to how many digits may the WO code be?
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9
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What does AR 614-100 stipulate about duty position assignments?
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if no position in their grade is available a Warrant Officer may be assigned to another grade no more than one lower or one higher
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What are two primary considerations in assigning a WO to duty position?
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Rank/Grade and MOS
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What approval is required to assign a Warrant Officer either two grades higher or lower?
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General Officer
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When should active duty officers update their assignment preference statement?
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Anytime
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No one is promoted on how good they are but
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how good their records say they are
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What do centralized selection boards do?
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Select WO for promotion, school, retention, and elimination
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From where does the board voting come from
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Secretary of the Army
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What is an aberrant vote
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if vote varies by more than two points from other members
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What are some of the effects of non selection for promotion?
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Seperated, Retained in current grade, transfer to IRR
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Minimum Time in Grade for CW2 (all components) is
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24 months/2years
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What are three seperate levels for promotion for active duty?
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Decentralized
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What are the 5 levels of NCOES
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WLC
Special BNCOC - ALC ANCOC - SLC Sergeant Major Course |
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What form is used to recommend an award?
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DA Form 638
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What are the entitlements for Medal of Honor Recipient?
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VA Pension
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What are the reasons an individual may recieve an award?
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Heroism, meritorious service, meritorious achievements, wounds
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What happens to an award that is in process and the Soldier goes AWOL
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It is revoked
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What is an interim award?
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Lesser Award given until Higher one is approved
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Should you always tell a Soldier that you are recommending him for an award?
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No
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Heroism Award recommendations must contain what?
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eyewitness statements
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What is Critical Thinking
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a deliberate process of thought whose purpose is to discern truth in situations where direct observation is insufficient, impossible, or impractical.""
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What is the purpose of Critical Thinking?
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to get you to visualize a problem, its solutions, and the ramifications of those solutions.
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What is a direct result of mission planning involving critical thinking?
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Decision Making
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What is one purpose of Creative Thinking?
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to better your problem solving and leadership abilities
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What methods are used to better improve situations?
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Simple Evolution, Synthesis, Revolution, Reapplication, and changing directions
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What ae the 9 approaches that bring Discipline to Thinking?
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Clarity, Accuracy, Precision, Relevance, Depth, Breadth, Logic, Significance, and Fairness
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What are the 8 Intellectual Traits?
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Fair-Mindedness, Intellectual Humility, Intellectual Courage, Intellectual Empathy, Intellectual Integrity, Intellectual Perseverance, Confidence in Reason, and Intellectual Autonomy
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What are traits exhibited by Habitual Critical and Creative Thinkers?
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Curiosity, Just because they want to know, Define a Problem, Evaluating Evidence, and logical reasoning
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What is the process of forming conclusions, judgments, facts, opinions, or inferences?
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Reasoning
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What is reasoning where a conclusion is a logical consequence of the premise?
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Deductive Reasoning or Deductive Logic
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What is the process of reasoning in which a person uses a number of specific established facts to draw a general conclusion?
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Inductive Reasoning or Inductive Logic
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What is Observation
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Collect Facts without Bias
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What is Analysis?
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Classify facts by establishing patterns of regularity
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What is Inference?
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from the patterns, infer generalizations about the relationship between facts
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What is confirmation?
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test the inference through further observation
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Inductive Reasoning is useful when there is _______ _______ about a problem?
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limited information
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What are two additional tools to enhance critical and creative thinking?
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Making a list and Brainstorming
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What are the Pitfalls in Thinking?
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Internal and External Bias
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What are internal biases?
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Biases that are independent of your enviroment
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What are some External Biases?
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Cultural Deformation, Presentation Bias, Tunnel Vision, and Wishful Thinking Bias
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What are two tools to avoid Pitfalls in Thinking
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Diagnostic Technique and Contrarian Technique
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What is Diagnostic Technique?
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procedure followed to avoid the pitfall
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What is Contrarian Technique?
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is when you directly challenge an assumption or outcome
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What are three things you check for when using diagnostic technique?
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Check your assumptions, check your information quality, and check for deception
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Which technique would you use to play devil's advocate""
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Contrarian Technique
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When using the Contrarian Technique it is as if you are searching for what?
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the worst possible information or outcome
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What are other techniques that can be used under the Contrarian Technique?
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Devil's Advocate, What if, and Pre-Mortem Technique
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What are the Universal Intellectual Standards
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Clarity, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, and fairness
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What FM covers Critical and Creative Thinking?
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FM 5-0
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While your ability to think critically gets faster the more you practice it, you first?
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have to think how to think
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Describe the effects of the Bomb
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Maximum temp burst several million degrees centigrade, Fireball of 15 meters radius formed in 0.1 millisecond, with a temp of 300,000 degrees centigrade expanding to max size in one second.
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Radioactive debris that fell heavily for over an hour over a wide area leaving 66,000 dead was known as what?
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Black rain
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Name three conferences that decided what the world would look like after WWII.
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Tehran (1943), Yalta (Feb 1945), and Potsdam (Jul-Aug 1945)
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What did Churchill warn in 1946?
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that an iron curtain" was descending through the middle of Europe."
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How did Stalin deepen the estrangement between the US and the Soviet Union?
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He asserted in 1946 that WWII was unaviodable and inevitable consequences of capitalist imperialism" and implied such a war might reoccur."
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Define Cold War
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a period of East-West competition, tension, and conflict short of a full scale War.
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Define MAD
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Mutual Assured Destruction
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Define Proxy Wars
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Real wars that were fought by Soviet allies rather than by the USSR itself
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What is the Warsaw Pact?
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Direct resonse to the decision to allow West Germany to join NATO
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When was Warsaw Pact signed
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1955
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What did the Warsaw Pact allow
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Red Army to be based in member states and provided unified military command and system of mutal assistance.
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When did Stalin die?
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Mar-53
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Through what challenges did US and Soviet Union go?
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were driven by complex interplay of ideological, nuclear, and conventional arsenal compiled, political, and economic factors, which led to shifts between cautious cooperation and over the years often bitter superpower rivalry.
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What was task Force Smith?
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was the first US combat formation to deploy from Japan to South Korea in the opening days of the Korean War to stop Southward progress of North Korean combat units
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Tactically speaking what were the differences between the American Army and Korean Army
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American troops were too dependant on the support of tanks and artillery. North Korean army utilized fluidity, surprise, ans concealment to compensate for their inferiority in firepower.
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What piece of equipment became important in the Korean War?
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the Helicopter
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What did North Korea do on 25 June 1950
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the Democratic People's Republic of Koreaarmy (DPRK- North Korea) opened fire on the Republic of Korea (ROK- South Korea) with artillery and mortars
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What were the results of COL Charles Bradford Smith's division advancement?
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Outnumbered Smith withdrew
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Describe the moral and rationale for the moral of American Troops
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demoralized they found themselves trapped in the southeastern corner of Korea
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Why was Inchon Landing early turning point in the Korean War?
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UN troops and material were flowing through the port of Pusan and the North Koreans stretche dits resources too far
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What were the differences in how General McArthur and President Truman wanted to handle the Korean War?
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General McArthur wanted to use nuclear bombs but President Truman wanted to unify the Korean penisula and avoid provoking the Soviets or Chinese
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USSR leader Khrushcev's concieved the idea of placing what in Cuba?
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intermidiate-range nuclear missles
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What were two purposes behind Khrushcev's conception?
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means of countering an emerging lead of the US in devolping and deploying strategic intercontinental missles, also to protect Cuba from another US sponsored invasion
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How and through what medium did President Kennedy respond to the Cuban Missle Crisis
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Television, letters, formal and black Channels"."
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The Cuban Missle Crisis was the closest the US ever came to what?
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an all-out nuclear War
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Who wanted to reestablish their colonial rule in Indochina
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the French
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Why and When did the war in Indochina begin?
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Negotiations between French and Vietminh brokdown war began in 1947
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What was General Vo Nguyen Giap responsibility?
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lead the Vietnam's Armies from their inception - lured French
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What 2 strategies did he have for defeating superior oppents?
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outmaneuver them in the field and to undermine their resolve by inflicting demoralizing political defeats with his bold tactics
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What happen in Dien Bien Phu?
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Giap lured the overconfident French into a turning point battle and won a stunning victory with brilliant deployments
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What three things did the Geneva Accords of 21 July provide at end of Indochina War?
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1. Vietnam divided at 17th parallel
2. Elections to be held in two years 3. 300 days allowed free movement between North and South |
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Who was in charge of North Vietnam
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Viet Minh
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Who was in charge of South Vietnam
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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What were the results of vice predident Johnson's visit to Southeast Asia
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US must either help the countries of Southeast Asia or pull back its defenses to San Francisco
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How did Vietnam add to the art of war?
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placed the US in the first non-linear enviroment making it difficult to find the enemy because of their guerrilla style tactics
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Describe the US Air Force operation Ranch Hand
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denied the Vietcong use of roads and trails
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How was South Vietnam President Diem overthrown?
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military coup, Dien was killed in the coup
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What inspired the three stages of War in Vietnam? What is the concept?
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Defensive, equilbrium, and counteroffensive. Inspired by On Proacted War" written by Mao Zedong"
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How was President Johnson able to take all neccessary measures repel any attacks
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The Gulf Tonkin Resolution
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What was Operation Flaming Dart?
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Air Raids the beginning of a new round of escalation in the War
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WHat was Operation Rolling Thunder
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sustained American bombing raid of North Vietnam
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What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail
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web of different jungle paths that enabled communist troops to travel from North Vietnam to areas close to Saigon
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Describe the Air Cavalry
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born during La Drang Campaign in Nov 1965 the new concept or role the helicopter brought to the Vietnam War
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What technology did the US add to its arsenal in the Vietnam War?
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Smart Bombs
Laser guided with pinpoint accuracy Infared Scopes |
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What was the largest operation of the Vietnam War?
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Operation Junction City
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How did President Johnson proceed after TET
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administration lost total crediability and he decided not to run for re-ellection
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What is Vietnamization
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Pacification, troop withdrawals, and Paris Peace talks
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What were the political objectives of LAMSON
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Show the communist that Vietnamization was working and Pressure Communist officials to Paris to respond more favorably to Kissingers peace initiative
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What were the provisions if Kissingers and Le Duc Tho agreement
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ceasefire in place, US cease all military operations against DRV, withdrawl of all US troops within 60 days, repatriation of all POW's, and the US to contribute to healing the wounds of war and postwar reconstruction of DRV
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What presidental crisis is going on concurrent with end of Vietnam War
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Watergate scandal
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What did President Ford do in New Orleans
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ended the war
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What three technology pieces boosted the Vietnam War, but didn't secure victory
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Bell UH-1 Helicopter the workhorse aircraft
Smart bombs Infared Scopes |
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Identify changes in war during the Gulf War
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advanced weapon systems were introduced to include: Satellite (GPS, Communication), Computer Viruses, and Stealth Technology
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What did Saddam Hussein do on 2 August 1990
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invaded and occupied Kuwait
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What resulted in announcement of annexation of Kuwait
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the largest coalition force ever assembled was forged
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What is CENTCOM and what did it represent?
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Central Command created from all services branches to develope palns for speedy movement of US ground, naval, and air forces to middle east
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Who made up two coalition involvedin the Gulf War
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US and UN-Arab
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What was General Schwarzkopf's four stage plan
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Phase I- air attacks would strike Iraq
Phase II- coalition air attacks would gain superiority over Kuwait Phase III- air attacks would reduce Iraq ground forces and their ability to use chemicals Phase IV- ground forces with support from Air Forces would eject Iraq from Kuwait" |
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What new weapon disabled the Iraq Defense system
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Computer Virus
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By what means was the coalition air attacks
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AH-64 Apache
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What weapon provided decisive in operation left hook?
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M1A1 Tank
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From beginning to end what was the length of Gulf War?
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2 August 1990 to 28 February 1991
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