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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Concentrated Essence of Strategy and Tactics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Belisarius's legacy caused the Byzantines to adopt what military strategy for centuries?
(a) Defensive-offensive combinations.
(b) Supply-line interdiction.
(c) The indirect approach.
(d) Ship fleet strategies.

2. What was unusual about the Wars of Spanish Succession?
(a) They were technically carried out between civilian organizations.
(b) They were never officially ended.
(c) They took place outside of either nation's territory.
(d) They were extremely short.

3. Hitler missed an excellent opportunity to wipe out the English army in what region?
(a) Dunkirk.
(b) Whitfield.
(c) Bastogne.
(d) Brest.

4. What tactic, employed by generals as early as Belisarius, was widely used in World War II?
(a) Overlapping fields of fire.
(b) Overwatch.
(c) Human wave attacks.
(d) Entrenchment.

5. A "pincer movement" involves what kind of strategic maneuver?
(a) Refusing one's own flank.
(b) Widening one's own flank.
(c) Driving up an enemy's flank.
(d) Turning an enemy's flank.

Short Answer Questions

1. What critical factor does naval power in the Mediterranean influence, especially in the case of the Greeks?

2. Why, according to the author, were Caesar's strategies insufficient?

3. Which of the following major factors that was developed in warfare in the period between 1854 and 1914 made it harder to employ the indirect approach?

4. Like Caesar, Belisarius was able to achieve victory in what way?

5. According to the author, what is the use or importance of ancient strategies?

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