Session 1

Question 1

What is criticism of grand strategy?

Answer 1

-world is unpredictable
-Leaders need to be flexible because of elections and public opinion concerns
- leadership turnover change direction
-bureaucracy can’t implement the complexety and technical requirements.

Question 2

Why is it useful to have a deliberate grand strategy?

Answer 2

1. Competetive advantage
2. coherence among actors involved in foreign politics
3. more efficiency for resource planning
4. transparency and accountability

Question 3

What Parts of Grand Strategy are intentional?

Answer 3

Plan ✅
Principle ✅
Pattern of behavior 🚮

Question 4

What are three real world applications of grand strategy?

Answer 4

Plan: translate state‘s interest into specific long-term goals. Set down in written documents.
Principle: overarching idea held by individuals about the long-term goals. Expressed in a single word or short phrase.
Pattern of behavior: long-term pattern in a states distribution of its resources. No written plan.

Question 5

What are characteristics of grand strategy?

Answer 5

• longterm
• global level
  -focus on the ultimate purpose of government action (national security, we’ll-being etc.)
• takes all the resources into account

Question 6

What is grand strategy?

Answer 6

Highest level of longterm political, diplomatic, military and economic planning.

Question 7

What is strategy? (Carl von Clausewitz)

Answer 7

The use of battles to achieve the objectives of war

Question 8

What are tactics?

Answer 8

Art of using forces in battle.