HISTORY
GEOGRAPHY
NS THREATS
CASE STUDIES
STRATEGIC THINKERS
100

This city was divided by a wall from 1961 until 1989.


What is Berlin?


100

TRIPLE POINTS

The world's largest island that is not considered a continent.


What is Greenland?


100

Attacks targeting networks, information systems, and digital infrastructure.

What are cyber attacks?

100

This alliance was created in 1949 as a collective defense organization.

What is NATO?

100

DOUBLE POINTS

This Chinese strategist advised commanders to "know your enemy and know yourself."


Who is Sun Tzu?

200

This battle in 1815 marked the final defeat of Napoleon and ended his return to power.


What is the Battle of Waterloo?


200

TRIPLE POINTS

This African nation has both Arabic and French as widely used languages and borders the Atlantic and Mediterranean.


What is Morocco?


200

DOUBLE POINTS

The deliberate spread of false information to influence public opinion.

What is disinformation?

200

This 2001 catastrophic event demonstrated how non-state actors could use asymmetric tactics against a superpower.

What were the September 11 attacks?

200

This Prussian theorist described war as "the continuation of politics by other means."


Who is Carl von Clausewitz?

300

DOUBLE POINTS

The only U.S. president to serve more than two terms.

Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt? (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

300

This river flows through Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade.


What is the Danube?


300

This term describes the use of military and non-military means below the threshold of conventional war.

What is hybrid warfare?

300

The annexation of this territory in 2014 became a major case study in gray-zone conflict.

What is Crimea?

300

TRIPLE POINTS

This strategist argued that control of the seas was a decisive factor in the rise of great powers and heavily influenced naval policy before World War I.


Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?

400

This 1215 document forced an English king to accept limits on royal authority.


What is the Magna Carta?


400

DOUBLE POINTS

This mountain range separates much of Europe from Asia. 


What are the Urals?


400

The intentional release of pathogens to cause fear, casualties, or disruption would fall under this category of threat.

What is bioterrorism?

400

DOUBLE POINTS

The 2007 cyber attacks against this Baltic state are frequently cited as one of the first major examples of state-linked cyber warfare.

What is Estonia?

400

This British historian and strategist coined the term "the indirect approach," arguing that victory often comes from avoiding an enemy's strengths.

Who is B. H. Liddell Hart?

500

This treaty, signed in 1648, is often cited as the beginning of the modern state system.


What is the Peace of Westphalia?

500

This narrow body of water connects the Black Sea and the Mediterranean via the Sea of Marmara.


What is the Bosporus?

500

This gray-zone tactic involves using civilian vessels to advance strategic objectives without direct military confrontation.

What is maritime militia?

500

This 1973 conflict is often studied for the strategic surprise achieved by Egyptian and Syrian forces against Israel.

What is the Yom Kippur War?

500

This American diplomat's 1947 "X Article" helped establish the intellectual foundation for the policy of containment.

Who is George F. Kennan?

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