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True or false: According to Liam Collins’ guest lecture on the war in Ukraine, Russian units did not expect to face significant resistance when they invaded in February 2022

True or false: According to Colonel Liam Collins’ guest lecture, Azerbaijan decisively defeated Armenia during the Nagorno-Karabakh war because Azerbaijan had a larger population, a larger economy, and a larger military.

True or false: According to Ethan Connell’s excellent lecture, although Alfred Thayer Mahan and Julian Corbett disagree about many aspects of seapower, they both try to connect their theories to Clausewitz’s theory of war.

According to lecture and Stephen Biddle’s Military Power, which of the following is/are elements of combined arms warfare (modern force employment)?

Consider the following hypothetical: It is 2031 and the newly elected isolationist president of the United States has decided to pull all of American military forces out of the Indo-Pacific. In response, South Korea forms an alliance with China. Taiwan joins an alliance with Japan against China. India decides to ‘go it alone’ and spends 25% of its GDP on its military forces. According to lecture, we would say that:

True or false: According to lecture, missile defenses are a complicated “system of systems” that rely on a radars, satellites, communications networks, and interceptors to be effective.

According to lecture and Stephen Biddle’s Military Power, the first army to master combined arms warfare was:

True or false: According to lecture, Stephen Biddle’s theory of combined arms warfare (Modern Force Employment) helps us understand why the United States Army struggled to win in Vietnam and Afghanistan

Consider the following hypothetical scenario: It is 2027 and NATO is at war with Russia. Units from the U.S. Navy, French Navy, and British Navy work together to conduct long-range missile strikes on Russian forces in Kaliningrad. According to lecture, an American military officer writing an after action report about the attack would refer to it as a(n) ___________________ operation.

Consider the following hypothetical: it is 2045. Mexico and Canada both now possess nuclear weapons, which they acquired in the preceding decade as a deterrent against US aggression in the late 2020s. Mexico and Canada are also adversaries now as they fight over the territory formerly held by the United States, which imploded during the great Facebook vs. Instagram social media civil war of 2030 (it pit boomers against zoomers and everyone came out a loser). As the Canadian-Mexican war drags on, Canada’s Prime Minster decides to use nuclear weapons against Mexico’s three largest cities. According to lecture, this type of nuclear strategy is known as: