C200 CGSOC Latest Update 2024-2025 100

C200 (CGSOC) Latest Update 2024-2025 100 Questions and 100% Verified Correct Answers Actual Exam Guaranteed A+

3 building blocks of design - CORRECT ANSWER: o Systems/subsystems - map

relationships between actors, institutions, structures

• Narratives - describe narratives based on perspectives to understand conflicting

ideas/perspectives

• Model - descriptive account of what's going on (includes actions the actor performs,

purposes, and narrative)

§ Ex: Afghan farmer and his story of choosing between local gov't and Taliban

acceptability - CORRECT ANSWER: - consequences of costs justified by the

importance of the desired effect?`

Armed conflict - CORRECT ANSWER: involves use of force as primary means to satisfy interests

armed conflict - CORRECT ANSWER: o Defeat - create conditions to impose objectives on adversary

• Deny - frustrate strategic conditions of adversary
• Degrade - reduce adversary's ability, will to greatest extent within resources and

acceptable risk

• Disrupt - temporarily interrupt the enemy's activities or effectiveness thru interdiction,

subversion, coercion

Black Swan event: - CORRECT ANSWER: - Outlier event, outside of regular expectation

• extreme impact
• makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact to try to make it

explainable 1 / 3

Clausewitz Trinity - CORRECT ANSWER: Reason (the government), chance (the

military), and passion (the people)

Coalition/Alliance Use - CORRECT ANSWER: o Balance - joins weaker alliance to

counter stronger state (NATO states joining against Russia)

• Bandwagon - weaker states joining a stronger state, alliance, or coalition (cost of

opposing exceeds benefits to be gained w/ a particular state)

Combatant Commands - CORRECT ANSWER: - Africa Command (AFRICOM)

• Central Command (CENTCOM)
• Cyber Command (CYBERCOM)
• European Command (EUCOM)
• Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM)
• Northern Command (NORCOM)
• Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)
• Space Command (SPACECOM)
• Special Operations Command (SOCOM)
• Strategic Command (STRATCOM)
• Transportation Command (TRANSCOM)

competition - CORRECT ANSWER: indirect, less use of resources, constrained but

prepared for conflict

• Enhance strategic objectives
• Manage military advantage
• Delay to achieve best strategic objective w/ given resources

competition below armed conflict - CORRECT ANSWER: 2+ more strategic actors view each other as competitors w/ incompatible interests; may cooperate in certain areas while competing in others; influence and coercion central to competition portion of spectrum 2 / 3

Competition Continuum - CORRECT ANSWER: - Cooperation

• Competition Below Armed Conflict
• Armed Conflict

Constructivism - CORRECT ANSWER: spheres of interaction shaped by identities and influenced by structures; states' goals are generated by their identities and how they see themselves in the international community

cooperation - CORRECT ANSWER: - mutually beneficial relationships between

strategic actors w/ similar interests

cooperation - CORRECT ANSWER: Behavior by two or more individual

nations/organizations that leads to mutual benefit

• Enduring activity, can cooperate on specific issues with adversaries if working towards

a common end

• Engage selectively w/ partners to achieve objectives
• Maintain open-ended cooperative relationships with allies/partners to secure bilateral

advantage

• Advance open-ended cooperative relationships with ally/partner by increasing

resources or commitment

Criteria for Just War - CORRECT ANSWER: - just cause

• legitimate authority
• public declaration
• just intent
• proportionality
• last resort
• reasonable hope for success
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