Purpose
This assessment gauges your understanding of the ideas and concepts introduced in the C200 lessons as well as your use of them to analyze strategies.
General Instructions
You may use the C200 online lessons, readings, and references to help you answer the exam.
Your answers will be typed and double-spaced. Use Arial 12-pitch font and one-inch margins.
Type your answers directly into the spaces provided. Your typed responses will be double-spaced sentences (not bullets).
Your answers should be approximately one typed page for each question. Limit your answers to one page.
If you state something from doctrine, the readings or the lessons as part of your answer, you MUST give a citation using parenthetical citations, endnotes, or footnotes on this exam.
Questions to be answered.
1. Describe the general differences between a Geographic Combatant Command and a Functional Combatant Command. (5 pts)
2. Using the Global Trends; Paradox of Progress, extract you read during the C202 lesson regarding the Future Security Environment, choose one significant challenge, and one significant opportunity. Briefly describe (i.e. no more than a paragraph each) the challenge and opportunity and why each would be significant to a geographic combatant commander. (10 pts)
a) Challenge [5 points]
b) Opportunity [5 points]
3. Describe the instruments of national power and provide at least one example for each category. (20 pts)
4. Describe risk within the Ends-Ways-Means-Risk construct and approaches to risk reduction that a combatant commander could make if a given strategy approved at the national policy/strategic level was determined to entail excessive risk. (15 pts)
5. Explain how the CJCS fulfills the role of principle military adviser in the National Security Council system. (10 pts)
6. What information do the GEF and JSCP contain that a Geographic Combatant Commander uses to guide the development of Theater Strategy? (10 pts)
a) GEF [5 points]
b) JSCP [5 points]
7. In the context of strategy formulation, the questions of feasibility, acceptability, and suitability are really questions about the validity of a given strategy. In your own words, briefly define the concepts of feasibility, acceptability, and suitability. (15 pts)
a) Feasibility [5 points]
b) Acceptability [5 points]
c) Suitability [5 points]
8. Using the USEUCOM Theater Strategy from Lesson C205, describe how EUCOM is accomplishing the first theater priority of Deter Russian aggression. (10 pts)
9. What is the purpose of a Combatant Commanders Annual Posture Statement to Congress? (5 pts)
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