Author Question: The increased availability of advanced arms a. clearly decreased the possibility of international ... (Read 52 times)

captainjonesify · **on:** Sep 4, 2018

The increased availability of advanced arms

a. clearly decreased the possibility of international conflict. Although popular
wisdom implies otherwise, fewer wars are being fought now than at any other
time in the twentieth century.
b. is a product of the media. In actuality, advanced arms are not more available.
c. has increased the lethality of modern warfare. In some cases, this has
decreased the willingness of modern states to enter conflict, but on the whole,
warfare remains at least as frequent as before.
d. means that the status quo in international affairs is more likely to endure now than
in previous times. This is an often-overlooked fact about the arms race.

Question 2

Which of the following is true of the policy of containment?

a. It is a strategy that originated with the Cold War.
b. It is an offensive strategy; deterrence is defensive.
c. It was used by conservative monarchical states to contain the ideology espoused by the French Revolution.
d. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union adopted containment as an official policy to balance against American power.
e. It uses only soft military power, as in economic sanctions.