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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19: The Theory of Strategy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the First World War, which Mediterranean nation did the allies hope to re-unify?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Greece.
(d) Croatia.

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

3. The author explains that it is essential to do what to the enemy's center?
(a) Locate it.
(b) Destroy it.
(c) Avoid it.
(d) Dislocate it.

4. 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?
(a) The railway.
(b) The machine gun.
(c) Observation balloons.
(d) Concentration of forces.

5. Effective grand strategies must include what factor?
(a) Propaganda.
(b) Both indirect and direct methods.
(c) Methods to subjugate conquered peoples.
(d) Methods to maintain whatever is gained.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disadvantage can the use of "picked troops" offset?

2. According to the indirect approach, military strategy needs to include plans to attack in what manner?

3. What is one problem of relying upon locomotives in warfare?

4. Late in the war, the primary German leader in the east was allowed to employ the indirect method by using what kind of an attack?

5. Germany's expansion forced what undesirable condition on it?

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