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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 3, On Strategy in General : Chapter 1, Strategy, Morality & Military Virtues.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Clausewitz claim as a vital component of critical analysis?
(a) Investigation and evaluation of means used in warfare.
(b) Be from an aristocratic family.
(c) Have a classical education.
(d) Studying at 2 or more war colleges.

2. What should military people do when they are not on the battlefield according to Clausewitz?
(a) Relax.
(b) Train.
(c) Read.
(d) Leave the country.

3. What factor does Clausewitz say was considered the only one that could be calculated according to the first author trying to theorize war?
(a) The execution of war.
(b) Training of generals.
(c) Assault on fortified positions.
(d) The preparation of war.

4. What does Clausewitz say can alleviate fear in an army and improve performances?
(a) Good self esteem.
(b) Trust.
(c) Money.
(d) Good weapons.

5. What does Clausewitz say determines the military objectives and the amount of force assigned to a war?
(a) The size of the army.
(b) The political object.
(c) The will of the generals in charge.
(d) The social object.

Short Answer Questions

1. What definition does Clausewitz give for "friction"?

2. What emotion does Clausewitz say should be used to make the enemy doubt the outcome of a war?

3. Who said that the commander in chief of an army must resolve problems like great mathematicians, such as Newton and Euler?

4. What faulty concept did theorists try to condense previous theories in according to Clausewitz?

5. What does Clausewitz say of the majority of intelligence information?

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