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Lesson 1
Learning Event 1

Practice Exercise

Instructions The following items will test your understanding of the material covered in this lesson. There is only one correct answer for each item. When you have completed the exercise, check your answers with the answer key that follows. If you answer any item incorrectly, review that part of the lesson which contains the portion involved.
1. Combined arms refers to the cooperation or combination between the branches (infantry, artillery, cavalry). There are three related elements that help define "combined arms." Which of the following is not one of the elements?

 A. The concept.
B. Offensive power.
C. Organization.
D. Tactics and operations.
2. Tactical warfare may be considered a combination of three elements. What are those three elements?

A. Mobility, protection, defensive power.
B. Mobility, firepower, protection.
C. Mobility, firepower, defensive power.
D. Mobility, protection, offensive power.
3. The concept and practice of combined arms is divided into two procedures. Which type means increasing the effect of one weapons system or arm with the similar effects of other weapons and arms?

A. Supplementary combined arms.
B. Complementary combined arms.
C. Offensive firepower.
D. Tactics and operations.
4. During the period of 1827-1890, two waves of technological change in the nineteenth century revolutionized the battlefield. During which wave of change were the railroad and the telegraph introduced?

A. During the post-Civil War wave.
B. During the 1880-1890s wave.
C. During the first wave.
D. During the second wave.
5. During which wave of technological change were the following introduced?

  • Smokeless gunpowder.
  • Magazine-fed repeating rifles.
  • Recoiling and quick-firing artillery.
  • Improved artillery fuzes.
  • Machineguns.
  • Internal combustion engines.

A. During the first wave.
B. During the second wave.
C. During the post-Civil War wave.
D. During the Franco-Prussian War wave.
6. This arm's role underwent changes due to firepower. In the days before automobiles, it had the greatest mobility. What arm is described here?

A. Cavalry.
B. Infantry.
C. Artillery.