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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who began advocating a pre-emptive military action against Iraq in the Bush Administration?

2. What term did the Pentagon use to describe the abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan?

3. Who replaced Generals Dunlavey and Baccus?

4. In late 2001 the Northern Alliance forced a major Taliban retreat to where?

5. How many stations did the "south group" have in central Asia?

Short Essay Questions

1. How had several key Taliban members escaped the original Afghanistan situation?

2. Who made up the group of Special Forces that escalated the covert war in Iraq during 2003?

3. What happened to resources at the CIA, starting in the late eighties?

4. What was the positive spin the media put on the first day of operations in Operation Anaconda?

5. What is Hersh's attitude towards the troops?

6. What bad intelligence was given to President Bush and used in his State of the Union Address?

7. How is the ruling family of Saudi Arabia viewed?

8. What was it shown that the common perception in Abu Ghraib was of what the military would allow?

9. What had the U.S. succeeded in stabilizing more than a year after Rumsfeld's pronouncement of Afghanistan's successes?

10. Why did Rumsfeld think that using Special Forces was an advantage in the war?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the role of the CIA in the Iraq war and the events leading up to it? What does this role mean about the power of the CIA? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

What was some of the intelligence information that said the U.S. might be attacked? What were some of the chances the U.S. had to gather intelligence that it missed in favor of other priorities? What does this show about the competence of the Bush Administration specifically, and the government in general, to cooperate in intelligence gathering and processing? Support your answer with specific examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Using specific examples from the book, explain the relationship that the U.S. has had with Saudi Arabia. How has that relationship helped and hurt the U.S. in its fight against terror?

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