Sea Power and National Security

What are naval operations that are unconventional in nature, and often clandestine in character known as?

What is NOT the Navy's role within national military strategy?

What is not a traditional school of strategic thought?

What is information required for the development of national security objectives, policies, and plans?

What is the destruction or neutralization of enemy submarines, mines, and other undersea forces called?

What are weaknesses of a nation that will reduce its war potential, combat effectiveness, or national will when struck?

Large movements and disposition of forces among the theaters of operations and the direction of the overall campaign?

The following oceans are strategically important for the United States: Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, and Afro-Asia

What doctrine held that the terrorist threat to the US justified preemptive attacks on terrorists?

What is the use of national power and influence to attain national security objectives called?

The Merchant Marine Act was established through the Maritime Commission in 1936?

What is the area which includes designated sea and littoral areas within which naval operations are conducted?

Attacks launched from the sea by naval forces and landing forces embarked in ships and craft

Agreement between the US government and US maritime industry allows commercial sealift and intermodal support services

What is the use of mines and mine countermeasures called?

Littoral nations are landlocked nations

Element of maritime strategy emphasizes the importance of international cooperation to maintain freedom of the seas?

What are ships designed to carry liquid cargoes in bulk quantities?

What is the narrow belt around the continents?

What is the destruction or neutralization of enemy surface combatants and merchant ships referred to as?

Armed conflict between major powers in which the total resources of the belligerents are employed?

What is the destruction or neutralization of enemy targets ashore through use of conventional or nuclear weapons called?

What is the science that finds methods of using the resources of the seas to benefit the world?

What function of the Navy includes carrier air strikes, amphibious assaults, and cruise missile attacks?

What are the two major technological developments that have emphasized the importance of the oceans?

Two categories of naval ships are combatant and auxillary

Observation of ocean areas to detect, locate, and classify potential targets and the reporting of information

What is the electronic support for all warfare tasks called?

What process is used to gain information necessary to make estimates of the situation/threat that might face a nation?

What is the ability of a state to satisfy objectives/to stop others from threatening it during peacetime and wartime?

Element of maritime strategy stresses the importance of participation in international and domestic relief efforts

After what war did developments occur that emphasized the importance of the oceans?

Mastery over the entire surface, subsurface, and air and near-Earth space, or over the battlespace?

What is the resupply of combat consumables to combatant forces in the theater of operations called?

What are the two major political developments that have emphasized the importance of the oceans?

What is the sole reason for the U.S. merchant marine's decline during and after the Civil War?

What are ships engaged in commerce that carry goods from one place to another over the world's oceans and waterways?

What is the destruction of enemy air platforms and airborne weapons called?

Type of strategy combines the capabilities of nation during peacetime and wartime for national interests and objectives?

Warfare involving a small groups of individuals attempting to bring political change thro creation/exploitation of fear?

What is the grouping of units to achieve a proper balance for a specific tactical requirement?

What is the science of farming the sea?

What are principles that govern warfighting strategy and tactics?

Which strategist determined that war is conducted on a physical and psychological level?

What are the Navy's two basic functions?

Why is the Arctic Ocean strategically important?

Strategy is defined as the art and science of fighting battles

Capability at any level of conflict, so that potential adversaries will consider their own risks to be unacceptable?

Actions taken against an adversary's information/information system while defending own information/information system?