61201
| Question | Answer |
| What SIOP applied during FR? | SIOP 63 |
| When did SIOP 63 apply? | 1962 |
| What did SIOP 63 offer? | More flexibility and a reserve force. Could control escalation of war |
| What was in the Nuclear Triad? | Strategic bombers, SLBMs, and ICBMs |
| What did McNamara introduce after the Cuban Missile Crisis? | Assured Destruction |
| What is Assured Destruction? | The ability for the US to absorb a first strike but still destroy 30% of Soviet population and 50% of industrial base |
| What undermined FR? | Nuclear parity between the superpowers |
| What did the Joint Chiefs of Staff nickname JFKs advisors? | The Whizz Kids |
| What measures were introduced with FR to improve survivability? | Nuclear Triad and half of SAC being on permanent alert |
| What is the Two and a Half War doctrine? | US could fight two large regional wars and a brushfire war at the same time |
| What did McNamara say FR would eventually make the aggressor reconsider? | Force the aggressor to confront costs and risks disproportionate to his initial objectives |
| What undermined containment? | If you couldn't act on a limited level |
| Where did JFK think SU expansion would be? | On the periphery |
| What did Flexible Response attempt to do? | Sought to reapply some proportionality between costs and benefits in countering SU |
| What was needed to maintain leverage with Flexible Response? | Second Strike |
| What was required in tandem with Flexible Response doctrine? | Conventional force to use in limited ways |
| What was the problem with NATO and Flexible Response? | NATO didn't like it. They preferred a modest conventional force as a tripwire before going nuclear |
| What did Bernard Brodie say? | Military was about wining wars. Now about avoiding them |
| What is Flexible Response? | Ability to respond across whole spectrum of warfare |
| What did JFK think of Massive Retaliation? | JFK thought MR irrelevant as SU wouldn't attack US Moves would be on the periphery |
Want to create your own Flashcards for free with GoConqr? Learn more.