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Title: Quiz

Voice: Here are a few questions to test your knowledge of the previous lesson material. These questions are for your self-assessment only and are not recorded. Read each choice carefully, then click on the link to check your answers. At the end of each question is a link to the relevant lesson page for that question. To get back to this quiz page, use your browser back feature (ALT + Left Arrow in IBM’s Home Page Reader). The next and back buttons on each page will only take you sequentially through the lesson pages.

• A. Air and space power is important for making permanent the advantages and successes achieved in ground combat.
• B. The Army must rely on the supporting capabilities of other services to gain battlefield success—air and space power is one of those capabilities.
• C. Strategic and deep operations reduce the extent of losses in ground combat; therefore, Army commanders support strategic and deep operations as a priority over close operations.

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Relevant lesson page: Airpower–Army Perspective

• A. close air support.
• B. battlespace dominance.
• C. long-range, deep attacks.

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Relevant lesson page: Naval Warfighting

• A. Having experienced inadequate close air support in WWII and Korea, the MAGTF was developed. This concept integrated command, ground, and support elements, with air support included in the support element.
• B. Following the Korean War, Congress mandated that the Marines would be an expeditionary force in readiness. This mandate of an “expeditionary force” precluded the Marines from developing “organic air” as part of their MAGTF.
• C. Marines view aviation as a key element of the MAGTF. They believe that the most effective use of aviation results when air and space power is integrated with other forms of combat power into a combined arms team.

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Relevant lesson page: USMC—Summary

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