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U.S. Army War College | STRATEGIC DPC 15-01 Quiz 4 completed 2025/2026 Question 1 0/2 Colin Gray's Maxim 23 means: Hide answer choices That political ends like security, prosperity, and order ultimately have to be defended with military force. Correct answer Incorrect: That former President Trump likes to use military power rather than politics to achieve national ends. That military power beats politics every time. That military success can substitute for political consent indefin...

U.S. Army War College | STRATEGIC DPC 15-01 Quiz 3 completed 2025/2026 Question 1 0/2 Colin Gray's Maxim 23 means: Hide answer choices That political ends like security, prosperity, and order ultimately have to be defended with military force. Correct answer Incorrect: That former President Trump likes to use military power rather than politics to achieve national ends. That military power beats politics every time. That military success can substitute for political consent indefi...

U.S. Army War College | STRATEGIC DPC 15-01 Quiz 2 completed with correct solutions/Answers 2025/2026 Question 1 2 Points Question 1 Maxim 32 states that the supreme virtue in strategy is: 1. risk aversion; that is, care to avoid undesired consequences from behavior. 2. unwavering focus on desired goals and their anticipated benefits. 3. appreciation that individual world leaders are not uniformly rational actors. 4. belief that the strategic utility of nuclear weapons lies only in de...

U.S. Army War College | STRATEGIC DPC 15-01 Quiz complete with answers 2025/2026 Question 1 2 Points Question 1 Which following phrase BEST encapsulates the lesson of Maxim 21? 1. The costs of an aborted mission are higher than the costs of any victory, so a commander must have confidence and drive forward no matter what. 2. Strategists should have a can-do attitude exemplified by the saying, "the difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer." 3. Strategis...