Ch.9 Intelligence And Strategy, Roger Z. George Test Bank

Chapter 9

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 01

01) Intelligence is focused upon the ________ of foreign governments, and increasingly on the plans and activities of non-state actors.

a. policies

b. intentions

c. capabilities

d. All of the options given are correct.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 02

02) US intelligence is distributed to which of the following?

a. Senior civilian policy-makers

b. Senior military officers

c. Allied and friendly governments

d. All of the options given are correct.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 03

03) Which of the major sources and methods of intelligence gathering is devoted to the collection, translation, and analysis of foreign broadcasts, news media, and the internet?

a. Human Intelligence (HUMINT)

b. Signals Intelligence (SIGINT)

c. Imagery Intelligence (IMINT)

d. Open Source (OPINT)

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 04

04) Covert action involves carrying out ‘special activities’ intended to conceal the US role in using _________ measures against an adversary.

a. military

b. political

c. economic

d. All of the options given are correct.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 05

05) Which of the following is not true about intelligence.

a. Intelligence is often secret information.

b. Intelligence can only be collected by military organizations.

c. Intelligence is often collected through clandestine means or technical systems.

d. Part of the intelligence mission is to protect collected information (counterintelligence) and to penetrate the intelligence services of adversaries (counterespionage).

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 06

06) What proposals were made about the CIA after the end of the cold war?

a. To amalgamate it with other intelligence agencies

b. To expand its activities in the Global South

c. To dismantle it

d. To leave it as it is

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 07

07) It is possible to eliminate strategic surprise and intelligence failures.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 08

08) Information gathered for a counterinsurgency differs fundamentally from the way intelligence is collected for conventional war: instead of information flowing from national systems down through higher headquarters to the tactical level, counterinsurgency information must flow from the solider and analyst in the field up to higher headquarters.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 09

09) Which of the new missions, procedures, and capabilities for US intelligence services have proved among the most controversial?

a. UAVs/drones

b. Detaining and interrogating terrorists

c. New data collection methods

d. All of the above options are correct.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 10

10) What challenges does the increasing amount of information pose to intelligence agencies?

a. The increasing speed of information flow decreases time available for analysis and subsequent action.

b. The development of new tools to store, structure, and analyse massive amounts of information has proven challenging.

c. Other actors’ abilities to develop dangerous information tools for cyber espionage and political action have also increased.

d. All of the above