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3 building blocks of design - CORRECT ANSWER: o Systems/subsystems - map
relationships between actors, institutions, structures
o Narratives - describe narratives based on perspectives to understand conflicting
ideas/perspectives
o Model - descriptive account of what's going on (includes actions the actor performs,
purposes, and narrative)
§ Ex: Afghan farmer and his story of choosing between local gov't and Taliban
acceptability - CORRECT ANSWER: - consequences of costs justified by the
importance of the desired effect?`
Armed conflict - CORRECT ANSWER: involves use of force as primary means to satisfy
interests
armed conflict - CORRECT ANSWER: o Defeat - create conditions to impose objectives
on adversary
o Deny - frustrate strategic conditions of adversary
o Degrade - reduce adversary's ability, will to greatest extent within resources and
acceptable risk
o Disrupt - temporarily interrupt the enemy's activities or effectiveness thru interdiction,
subversion, coercion
Black Swan event: - CORRECT ANSWER: - Outlier event, outside of regular
expectation
- extreme impact
- makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact to try to make it
explainable
,Clausewitz Trinity - CORRECT ANSWER: Reason (the government), chance (the
military), and passion (the people)
Coalition/Alliance Use - CORRECT ANSWER: o Balance - joins weaker alliance to
counter stronger state (NATO states joining against Russia)
o Bandwagon - weaker states joining a stronger state, alliance, or coalition (cost of
opposing exceeds benefits to be gained w/ a particular state)
Combatant Commands - CORRECT ANSWER: - Africa Command (AFRICOM)
- Central Command (CENTCOM)
- Cyber Command (CYBERCOM)
- European Command (EUCOM)
- Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM)
- Northern Command (NORCOM)
- Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
- Space Command (SPACECOM)
- Special Operations Command (SOCOM)
- Strategic Command (STRATCOM)
- Transportation Command (TRANSCOM)
competition - CORRECT ANSWER: indirect, less use of resources, constrained but
prepared for conflict
o Enhance strategic objectives
o Manage military advantage
o Delay to achieve best strategic objective w/ given resources
competition below armed conflict - CORRECT ANSWER: 2+ more strategic actors view
each other as competitors w/ incompatible interests; may cooperate in certain areas
while competing in others; influence and coercion central to competition portion of
spectrum
Constructivism - CORRECT ANSWER: spheres of interaction shaped by identities and
influenced by structures; states' goals are generated by their identities and how they
see themselves in the international community
cooperation - CORRECT ANSWER: - mutually beneficial relationships between
strategic actors w/ similar interests
cooperation - CORRECT ANSWER: Behavior by two or more individual
nations/organizations that leads to mutual benefit
- Enduring activity, can cooperate on specific issues with adversaries if working towards
a common end
o Engage selectively w/ partners to achieve objectives
o Maintain open-ended cooperative relationships with allies/partners to secure bilateral
advantage
o Advance open-ended cooperative relationships with ally/partner by increasing
resources or commitment
Criteria for Just War - CORRECT ANSWER: - just cause
- legitimate authority
- public declaration
- just intent
- proportionality
- last resort
- reasonable hope for success
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