Exam Prep Chapter.8 Technology And Warfare, Ryan Grauer 7e

Chapter 8

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 01

01) According to this chapter, ___________ are defined as ‘tools and the ways of using them that either deliver force or defend against the adversary’s use of force in battle’.

a. application technologies

b. coordination technologies

c. facilitating technologies

d. communication technologies

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 02

02) Logistics are an example of…

a. application technologies.

b. coordination technologies.

c. facilitating technologies.

d. communication technologies.

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 03

03) ‘Revolutions in military affairs’ refer to developments in military technology that have profound consequences for combatants, for the armed forces employing them, and for the ways in which wars are fought.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 04

04) Militaries most commonly improve their technologies through _______

a. innovation.

b. invention.

c. diffusion.

d. the creation of new ideas, tools, or processes.

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 05

05) Military technologies refer solely to ‘weapons of war’, such as the longbow, the machine gun, the tank, armed unmanned aerial vehicles, and possibly even newer tools like hypersonic glide vehicles.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 06

06) According to this chapter, the primary sources of military technological failure reside in each of the following, except…

a. humans.

b. international agreements.

c. organizations.

d. the nature of war.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 07

07) According to this chapter, the ability of a military to innovate or adopt foreign innovations is conditioned by each of the following, except…

a. national industrial and intellectual capacities.

b. strategic culture.

c. alliance relations.

d. specific strategic requirements (real or perceived).

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 08

08) According to this chapter, there are a wide array of advances in military technology underway, including in the cyber and space domains, in automation, and in the biological sciences, which are likely to change the fundamental role and dynamics of military technology in warfare.

a. True

b. False

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 09

09) Which of the following points supports the claim that the world is currently undergoing a revolution in military affairs (RMA) that will fundamentally change warfighting?

a. The system-of-systems has not yet been used against particularly competent or powerful foes.

b. The technical capacity to detect enemy forces, weapons, and other targets has grown as the collection capacities of satellite, radar, and other sensory technologies have increased in both quantity and quality, resulting in a tsunami of information.

c. It has become clear that ‘lifting the fog of war’ is very likely a mirage.

d. The RMA has led many potential foes to adopt new technologies and alter their practices in ways that limit the system-of-systems’ efficacy.

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 08 - Question 10

10) Friction is an example of how the nature of war itself can result in military technological failure.

a. True

b. False