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3 building blocks of design - CORRECT ANSWER: o Systems/subsystems - map
relationships between actors, institutions, structures
- Narratives - describe narratives based on perspectives to understand conflicting
- Model - descriptive account of what's going on (includes actions the actor performs,
ideas/perspectives
purposes, and narrative)
§ Ex: Afghan farmer and his story of choosing between local gov't and Taliban
acceptability - CORRECT ANSWER: - consequences of costs justified by the
importance of the desired effect?`
Armed conflict - CORRECT ANSWER: involves use of force as primary means to satisfy interests
armed conflict - CORRECT ANSWER: o Defeat - create conditions to impose objectives on adversary
- Deny - frustrate strategic conditions of adversary
- Degrade - reduce adversary's ability, will to greatest extent within resources and
- Disrupt - temporarily interrupt the enemy's activities or effectiveness thru interdiction,
acceptable risk
subversion, coercion
Black Swan event: - CORRECT ANSWER: - Outlier event, outside of regular expectation
- extreme impact
- makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact to try to make it
explainable 1 / 3
Clausewitz Trinity - CORRECT ANSWER: Reason (the government), chance (the
military), and passion (the people)
Coalition/Alliance Use - CORRECT ANSWER: o Balance - joins weaker alliance to
counter stronger state (NATO states joining against Russia)
- Bandwagon - weaker states joining a stronger state, alliance, or coalition (cost of
opposing exceeds benefits to be gained w/ a particular state)
Combatant Commands - CORRECT ANSWER: - Africa Command (AFRICOM)
- Central Command (CENTCOM)
- Cyber Command (CYBERCOM)
- European Command (EUCOM)
- Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM)
- Northern Command (NORCOM)
- Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
- Space Command (SPACECOM)
- Special Operations Command (SOCOM)
- Strategic Command (STRATCOM)
- Transportation Command (TRANSCOM)
competition - CORRECT ANSWER: indirect, less use of resources, constrained but
prepared for conflict
- Enhance strategic objectives
- Manage military advantage
- Delay to achieve best strategic objective w/ given resources
competition below armed conflict - CORRECT ANSWER: 2+ more strategic actors view each other as competitors w/ incompatible interests; may cooperate in certain areas while competing in others; influence and coercion central to competition portion of spectrum 2 / 3
Competition Continuum - CORRECT ANSWER: - Cooperation
- Competition Below Armed Conflict
- Armed Conflict
Constructivism - CORRECT ANSWER: spheres of interaction shaped by identities and influenced by structures; states' goals are generated by their identities and how they see themselves in the international community
cooperation - CORRECT ANSWER: - mutually beneficial relationships between
strategic actors w/ similar interests
cooperation - CORRECT ANSWER: Behavior by two or more individual
nations/organizations that leads to mutual benefit
- Enduring activity, can cooperate on specific issues with adversaries if working towards
- Engage selectively w/ partners to achieve objectives
- Maintain open-ended cooperative relationships with allies/partners to secure bilateral
- Advance open-ended cooperative relationships with ally/partner by increasing
a common end
advantage
resources or commitment
Criteria for Just War - CORRECT ANSWER: - just cause
- legitimate authority
- public declaration
- just intent
- proportionality
- last resort
- reasonable hope for success
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