Ch. 6- Military Force & Terrorism

Question 1

Foot soldiers who use assault rifles and other light weapons

Answer 1

Infantry

Question 2

An effort to combat guerrilla armies

Answer 2

Counterinsurgency

Question 3

Concealed explosive devices, often left behind by irregular armies, that kill or maim civilians after wars end

Answer 3

Landmines

Question 4

The ability to use military force in areas far from a country’s region

Answer 4

Power projection

Question 5

Use of the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves, radar, infrared, etc) in war

Answer 5

Electronic warfare

Question 6

The use of special radar-absorbent materials and unusual shapes in the design of aircraft, missiles, and ships to scatter enemy radar

Answer 6

Stealth technology

Question 7

The use of terrorist groups by states, usually under control of a state’s intelligence agency, to achieve political aims

Answer 7

State-sponsored terrorism

Question 8

Nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, all distinguished from conventional weapons by their enormous potential lethality and their relative lack of discrimination in whom they kill

Answer 8

Weapons of mass destruction

Question 9

The elements uranium-235 and plutonium, whose atoms split apart and release energy via a chain reaction when an atomic bomb explodes

Answer 9

Fissionable material

Question 10

The major strategic delivery vehicle for nuclear weapons; it carries a warhead along a trajectory and lets it drop on the target

Answer 10

Ballistic missiles

Question 11

The longest-range ballistic missiles, able to travel 5,000 miles

Answer 11

Intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM)

Question 12

A set of agreements through which industrialized states try to limit the flow of missile-relevant technology to third world states

Answer 12

Missile Technology Control Regime

Question 13

An agreement that bans the production and possession of chemical weapons and includes strict verification provisions and the threat of sanctions against villagers and non participants in the treaty

Answer 13

Chemical Weapons Convention (1992)

Question 14

An agreement that prohibits the development, production, and possession of biological weapons but makes no provision for inspections

Answer 14

Biological Weapons Convention (1972)

Question 15

The spread of weapons of mass destruction into the hands of more actors

Answer 15

Proliferation

Question 16

A treaty that created a framework for controlling the spread of nuclear materials and expertise

Answer 16

Non-Proliferation Treaty

Question 17

A UN agency based in Vienna that is charged with inspecting the nuclear power industry in NPT member states to prevent secret military diversions of nuclear materials

Answer 17

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Question 18

The possession of second-strike nuclear capabilities, which ensures that neither of two adversaries could prevent the other from destroying it in an all-out war

Answer 18

Mutually assured destruction

Question 19

A US effort, also known as Star Wars, to develop defenses that could shoot down incoming ballistic missiles, spurred by Ronald Reagan in 1983

Answer 19

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Question 20

A treaty that prohibited either the US or the Soviet Union from using a ballistic missile defense as a shield, which would have undermined MAD and the basis of deterrence

Answer 20

Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

Question 21

A treaty that bans all nuclear weapons testing, thereby broadening the ban on atmospheric testing

Answer 21

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Question 22

A hierarchy of officials through which states control military forces

Answer 22

Chain of command

Question 23

A term that refers to the seizure of political power by domestic military forces, that is, a change of political power outside the state’s constitutional order

Answer 23

Coup d’état

Question 24

States in which military forces control the government. Most common in third world countries

Answer 24

Military governments