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1.  What main factors affect a nation's strategic planning?

2.  A)  What are the three basic considerations in evaluating an external threat?

B)  Which is the most difficult to assess?

3.  A)  What are intelligence estimates intended to do?

B)  Why are they so important?

4.  What are the three national strategies that make up grand strategy?

5.  What are the nine principals of war?

6.  What is general war?

7.  What are the six potential actions that might cause a general war to occur?

8.  What circumstances might cause entanglement of the major powers in a war that could escalate to general war?

9.  What is the key to maintaining a deterrent threat?

10.  How are "understandings" concerning limitations in a limited war conveyed to the other power?

11.  What is the new element of risk introduced in the pax ballistica?

12.  What are the two school of thought concerning the introduction of tactical nuclear weapons to the battlefield?

13.  How may selective use of force be used to limit wars or reduce danger of major power confrontations?

14.  Why are naval and air operations less risky than ground force invasion?

15.  What is the major difference between "traditional" revolutionary wars, as fought in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and modern "wars of national liberation"?

16.  What was Mao Tse-tung's concept of modern revolutionary war?

17.  What are the three prerequisites for revolution?

18.  A)  What is the usual situation existing in a country where revolutionaries are trying to take over?

B)  What must be done to defeat them in such cases?

19.  What form has modern revolutionary warfare taken in recent years?