Week 8

Question 1

The United Nations defines “major wars” as military conflicts inflicting _____________battlefield deaths per year

Answer 1

1,000.

Question 2

The Joint Chiefs of Staff is comprised of _________ officers who advise the president.

Answer 2

6.

Question 3

The captain in Restrepo noted at the start of the documentary that of all bombs dropped in Afghanistan at that time_______were dropped in the Korangal Valley.

Answer 3

70%.

Question 4

The army unit stationed in the Karangol Valley was blamed for the death of one of the villager’s cows. How did this cow die or was killed?

Answer 4

Tangled in wire.

Question 5

The Contra rebels in Nicaragua were attempting to overthrow of the Sandinista government of what Nicaraguan president (who as of 2006 has returned to power)?

Answer 5

Daniel Ortega.

Question 6

What was the main motivation for the FARC insurgency in Colombia?

Answer 6

Land ownership proliferation and libereation.

Question 7

The Sons of Iraq are

Answer 7

Insurgents who left Al Qaeda and joined American ranks.

Question 8

Local religious leaders in Afghanistan are called ___.

Answer 8

Mullah.

Question 9

According to John Arquilla in his article on talking with the Taliban, the quote “Jaw-jaw as well as war-war” is attributed to __________.

Answer 9

Winston Churchill.

Question 10

According to the article “Hacking the President’s DNA” which “law” states that the number of transitors on an integrated circuit will double every 12 months?

Answer 10

Moore’s.

Question 11

Today around ____________ of those killed or wounded in wars are non-combatants.

Answer 11

75%.

Question 12

The smallest (lowest level) unit in the Air Force is the____________.

Answer 12

Flight.

Question 13

How many U.S. soldiers died in the Karangol Valley before the Army withdrew from this region?

Answer 13

50.

Question 14

In the context of the war in Afghanistan, green-on-blue refers to ___.

Answer 14

Attack on U.S. coalition forces by Afghan forces.

Question 15

Who of the following was instrumental in the northern Ireland peace process?

Answer 15

Gerry Adams.

Question 16

A suicide bomber posing as a journalist killed Ahmad Shah Massoud, the legendary ___________commander of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan

Answer 16

Tajik.

Question 17

The term referring to clan or sub-tribal identity in Afghanistan is ___.

Answer 17

Qawam.

Question 18

According to the article “Hacking the President’s DNA” releasing the president’s DNA would be considered ________________ transparency.

Answer 18

Promotional.

Question 19

According to Dr. Arqilla, in Columbia 1% of the people own ____% of the land

Answer 19

50%.

Question 20

The tribal canon of the Pashtun is the Pashtunwali. Its sacred tenets include protecting women’s purity referred to as ___.

Answer 20

Namus.

Question 21

The Iran-Contra affair in which arms sales were to be used to obtain the release of hostages was ‘outed’ by ___.

Answer 21

A clerical error.

Question 22

In order to play, the guitarist soldier in Restrepo secured the cigarette he was smoking ___.

Answer 22

on the guitar.

Question 23

How did PFC Sebastian Restrepo die?

Answer 23

Bled to death in a helicopter.

Question 24

The use of armed forces in engagement that is thought of as analogous to bidding in cards is ___.

Answer 24

Strategy.

Question 25

What was the relationships with guns s a child of the young soldier with the hippie mother?

Answer 25

Now allowed.

Question 26

The largest unit of the army of those listed below is the ____.

Answer 26

Division.

Question 27

Anthropologists believe that the stringent enforcement of women’s isolation from men as to do with ________________.

Answer 27

Extreme fluctuations in resources.

Question 28

Why was PFC Restrepo’s unit in the Korangal Valley?

Answer 28

Road building security.

Question 29

Which of the following aircraft would be used primarily to control airspace?

Answer 29

F-16 Fighter.

Question 30

Regarding the Iran-Contra affair, who testified to congress that “I was authorized to do everything I did”?

Answer 30

Oliver North.

Question 31

Oliver North Regarding the Iran-Contra affair, who testified to congress that “I was authorized to do everything I did”?

Answer 31

PLFP.

Question 32

In 2012 there were around ________conflicts classified as war.

Answer 32

24.