Clausewitz
What is Prussia?
While strategy involves long-term goals, this focuses on how individual battles are fought.
What are tactics?
The corporate structure of PMCs distinguishes them from these traditional independent fighters.
What are mercenaries?
These wars are characterized by ambiguity, unconventional tactics, and undefined rules of engagement.
What are grey wars?
This is the term military and political figures give to unintended destruction and civilian deaths.
What is collateral damage?
Clausewitz described this concept as the confusion and unpredictability that clouds decision-making in war.
What is "fog of war"?
This term refers to the integration of diplomatic, economic, and military efforts in warfare.
What is Grand Strategy?
This PMC, MPRI, played a significant role in training forces during these European conflicts.
What are Balkan conflicts?
Operation Detachment Alpha is the primary fighting force of this Army elite special forces unit.
Who are the Green Berets?
This group of mercenaries played a critical role as military contractors during the American Revolution.
What are Hessians?
This term refers to the challenges and resistance that make even simple tasks difficult in warfare.
What is "friction"?
What is asymmetrical warfare?
This controversial PMC was involved in the Nisour Square massacre in 2007.
What is Blackwater?
This iconic SOF operation was responsible for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
What is Neptune Spear?
A nation’s "way of war" today is often distinguished by reliance on these specific features.
What is firepower (technology)?
Clausewitz’s "trinity of war" consists of these three elements.
What are violence, chance, politics?
A war is said to be this type of it consists of rebellions, disagreements about beliefs and cultures and generally devolves into civil wars.
What is an ideological war?
The rapid expansion of the PMC market occurred after this major global event.
What is 9/11?
From 2016 to 2020, this percentage of U.S. counter-terrorism operations involved SOF.
What is 75%?
During the Russian-Afghan war, the U.S. supported the Mujahideen by providing money and weapons in this operation.
What is Cyclone?
According to Clausewitz, this is the "source of strength" that an enemy must target to win a war.
What is "center of gravity"?
The participants in a war are know as these.
What are belligerents?
Of the types of private military companies, this is the one most likely to participate directly in combat.
What are provider firms?
This doctrine describes the use of SOF as precision tools in complex geopolitical conflicts.
What is "Golden Spear"?
What was the primary organization that laid the groundwork for modern U.S. intelligence operations during World War II?
What is the Office of Strategic Services?