Air Power With Warfare

Question 1

What is the difference between conflict, war and warfare?

Answer 1

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Question 2

What are the four characteristics of the military instrument?

Answer 2

1. Fighting Power
2. The Moral component
3. The Physical Component
4. The Conceptual Component

Question 3

What are the core characteristics of air power?

Answer 3

1. Height
2. Speed
3. Reach

Question 4

What are the four roles of air power?

Answer 4

1. Attack
2. ISR
3. Air Mobility
4. Control of the Air

Question 5

What are the strengths of air power?

Answer 5

• Ubiquity
• Suprise
• Broad Ranging
• Flexibility

Question 6

What are Air Power’s Weaknesses?

Answer 6

• Expensive
• Limited by operational workforce
• Susceptible to cyber, electronic, and/or hybrid warfare
• Limited Payload
• Geopolitical Restrictions

Question 7

What are the four roles of Space Power?

Answer 7

1. Space Situational Awareness
2. Space Control
3. Space Support
4. Space Service

Question 8

What are the four attributes of space power?

Answer 8

1. Perspective
2. Access
3. Persistence
4. Versatility

Question 9

What are the four attributes of space power?

Answer 9

1. Perspective
2. Access
3. Persistence
4. Versatility

Question 10

What are three levels of warfare?

Answer 10

1. Security and non-combat operations
2. Defence diplomacy
3. Defence and Security Exports
4. Regional stability, conflict prevention, post-conflict reconstruction and stabilisation

Question 11

What are the three reasons force may be required?

Answer 11

1. Protecting the UK and overseas territories
2. Promoting and defending our national interests worldwide
3. Responding to the UN and NATO

Question 12

What is air power?

Answer 12

“The ability to project project power from the air and space to influence the behaviour of people or the course of events.”

Question 13

When was the genesis of the RAF?

Answer 13

1st April 1918, by merging the RFC and RNAS

Question 14

What was Britain’s longest serving multi-functional aircraft of WW1?

Answer 14

The BE2 - The fighting scout

Question 15

Why is the 11th November 1918 significant?

Answer 15

This date marked the end of the great war following Germany’s surrender and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles

Question 16

When did WW2 erupt?

Answer 16

1st September 1939

Question 17

What was operation dynamo and when did it take place?

Answer 17

The Dunkirk evacuations (may-june 1940)

Question 18

When was The Battle of Britain

Answer 18

July-Oct 1940

Question 19

When did world war two end?

Answer 19

May 1943

Question 20

What was operation Kahan Cascade and when was it?

Answer 20

A humanitarian mission to save the Nepalese from starvation (1st march 1973)

Question 21

What was operation Black Buck and when was it

Answer 21

The first offensive sortie carried out against the Argentinians during the Falklands war (1982)

Question 22

What was operation Herrick and when was it?

Answer 22

The UK’s contribution to the NATO led ISAF invasion of Iraq (20th June 2002)

Question 23

What was operation telic and when was it?

Answer 23

The codename for the UK forces in Iraq from 19th march 2003 untill the withdrawal of British forces on 22nd May 2011

Question 24

What was operation Ellamy and when was it?

Answer 24

The UK’s contribution to the international coalition intervention in Libya, with the aim of enforcing a no-fly zone in accordance with a UN SC resolution designed by NATO

Question 25

What are four types of joint operations

Answer 25

1. Air-Land
2. Air-Cyber
3. Air-Space
4. Air-Maritime

Question 26

What are the three segments of space power?

Answer 26

1. Ground Segment
2. Space Segment
3. Link Segment