Clausewitz on War
Geopolitics and Grand Strategy
Nuclear Warfare
Strategic Studies
Cyber Warfare
100

The three things that make up Clausewitz's Paradoxical Trinity.

What are passion, probability and reason.

100

This is the phenomenon that highlighted the importance of geographical factors? 

What is Imperial Expansion?

100

Military forces and communications networks would be considered these kinds of targets.

What are counterforce targets.

100

This describes different actors connected by various forms of linkages, complex interdependence covering many issue areas, and multiple layers of governance.

What is a multiplex world?

100

The syntactic layer, the physical layer and the cognitive layer are the three layers of what?

What is cyberspace?

200

Limited wars are fought over this.

What is territory.

200

Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski were responsible for rehabilitating it in US academic and policy circles.

What is geopolitics?

200

The first kind of nuclear weapons used this kind of reaction.

What is fission?

200

Ancient Indian rulers and the Indian epics promoted this kind of strategy that encouraged accommodation and justice to secure order and a realist strategy that focused on the necessity of violence and power.

What is moralist strategy?

200

Adversarial attempts to influence social behavior, including voting behavior and security strategies, are most effective when they take advantage of this.

What is confirmation bias?

300

There should be a relationship between the value that a state attaches to the ends it seeks to obtain in warfare and the means which it uses to achieve those ends describes this.

What is the rational calculus of war?

300

According to Niblett's chapter, "China is no Soviet Union," the New Cold War between China and the U.S will be global and primarily played out here.

What is The Global South?

300

The kinds of nuclear weapons are used to designate devices intended for use against troop concentrations, ships, and similar targets. They generally are delivered using means such as short-range missiles or tactical aircraft.

What are tactical nuclear weapons?

300

These kind of states faced Cold War-era security problems that more often came from domestic or regime insecurities than from external security concerns.

What are Third World states?
300

This is an umbrella term used to reference a wide variety of cyberattack modes (including worms, viruses, and spyware) that are aimed at the syntactic layer—computer code and language—of cyberspace.

What is malware?

400

These are assets key to an enemy's ability to survive and carry out warfare.

What are centres of gravity?

400

Top-down order, human relations "guanxi", obligations to groups and avoiding chaos describes this country's civilization.

What is China?

400

States have not used nuclear weapons since 1945 because they would most likely face these.

What are international sanctions and/or other punishments?

400

This is why the Non-Aligned world/Global South different now than during the Cold War.

What is more of the world population is now in the global south?


400

The strategy called "layered cyber deterrence" is used in this country.

What is the US?

500

The description of the problems that separate war in theory from war in reality.

What is friction?

500

Roman law, the individual matters, Greek analytical thinking, Christian values and law of non-contradiciton describes this kind of civilization.

What is western civilization?

500

This is a system is intended to intercept incoming nuclear warheads. 

What is Ballistic Missile Defense?

500

This country has particularly succeeded in playing Russia and the U.S off of each other.

What is India?

500

China’s cyber strategy against the United States and other democracies has largely consisted of digital espionage that is mainly intended to steal this kind of property.

What is intellectual property?