week 4

Analogies
are helpful to policymakers in making
decisions because
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Analogies
are helpful to policymakers in making
decisions because
they identify past events that may hold
lessons
for the current problem being faced.
Signals
are pieces of information relevant to a decision,
and noise
is
deliberate attempts by the enemy to deceive.
The
tendency for policymakers to hold on to their beliefs
and values in the face of contradictory information is referred to as
cognitive consistency.
Which
of the following is an inaccurate statement about
how policymakers learn from events
?
They focus on events experienced by allies
rather
than by enemies.
In trying to learn from United States foreign policy toward
the Arab Spring or some other event, which of the following
is not a type of calculation likely to be made by
policymakers ?
They ask how else this problem situation
might
have ended
In
defining a policy as a success, policymakers tend to
do all but which of the following
?
differentiate between limited or partial
success
and complete success
In looking to a future conflict with an adversary, which of
the following is the most common lesson of the past
likely to be learned by policymakers?
Avoid policies that failed and repeat those
that
succeeded.
Which
of the following is suggested as a lesson to be learned from the past when thinking about entering a conflict
Don't expect too much from local authorities
The
stated purpose of U.S. strategy in the Philippine
American War was to
prepare the Philippines for accepting
American
sovereignty.
The
Iraq syndrome
refers
to
the way in which the problems experienced by
the
U.S. in Iraq will make
the
American public reluctant to support U.S.
interventions elsewhere.
proxy warLocal or regional wars in which the superpowers armed, trained, and financed the combatantsThe Taylor Rostow Report on Vietnam was significant because itshifted the Vietnam War from being seen as a political problem to a military problem.Which of the following provided President Johnson with what amounted to a free hand in conducting the Vietnam War?the Gulf of Tonkin ResolutionThe principal political lesson of the past used by policymakers in their Vietnam decision making was the damage done to careers bythe loss of China.Many strategic and tactical lessons from the past were applied to Vietnam by U.S. policymakers. Which of the following analogies was among the most important?the Munich analogyVietnam destroyed the Cold War foreign policy consensus and put into place all but which of the following outlooks ?Jacksonian populismPublic opinion surveys indicated that the three most frequently cited reasons for the U.S. defeat in Vietnam included all but which of the following?Soviet and Chinese aid to North VietnamIn a future conflict, if policymakers selected to adopt a Shock and Awe military campaign the primary goal would be to :demoralize the opponent's military forces.An example of a phase IV activity in the Iraq War wasestablishing a Coalition Provisional Authority.Which of the following was presented by the Bush administration as its "lesson of the past" for rebuilding Iraq after the war ?Germany