Global Issues: Chapter 6 War and Security

1. What is the difference between conventional and unconventional war and which does asymmetric conflict fall under?

2. What is the "Soft Power 30"?

3. What objective categories of data are considered in arriving at the Soft Power 30?

4. Which objective category in #3 is weighted the most?

5. What country entered the top 5 of the Soft Power 30 in 2018?

6. What is the ranking of the U. S. in the Soft Power 30 of 2018?

7. What countries are ahead of/above the U. S. in the Soft Power 30 rankings?

8. What does the Correlates of War (COW) roject seek to do?

9. When did the new version of Intra-State War data become available?

10. In the video regarding how assymmetric war could escalate, 3 reasons are given.  They are miscalculation, misinterpretation and bad judgement. The narrator says the situation would begin with small deniable attacks, but that in a climate of ___________________ and under the __________ of time, the 3 criteria given above have a very high chance of occurring. 

11. In the scenario of question #10, would effects of such a conflict between the U. S. and Iran stay within the Iranian border and NOT affect surrounding countries?  YES or NO?

The next few questions are from the Global Power Index of 2020 Military Strength ratings:

12.  What country is #1 in the ratings?

13. How many aircraft carriers does it have?

14. What is its defense budget?

15. How much oil reserves does it have?

16. What countries are #2-5?

17. Which of the countries in your answer to #16 has/have more manpower than the U. S.?

18. From the Top 10 Natural Resources in the World, what is the #1 resource?

      What number resource is Oil?

19.  In the Institute of Peace video "War By Other Means", what is the "other means" that is the subject of this 2018 video?

20. What is a state's ability to protect its interests, secrets, and citizens from external and internal threats? (Hint: vocabulary).

21. What threats in addition to military threats are included today? (Hint: there are 3, in your book).