ILE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● Jus in Bello Standards (2)
Answer: - Discrimination
- Proportionality
- Indispensability
- Law & Treaty
●● The Levels of Warfare are what?
Answer: Strategic, Operational, Tactical
●● Paradox of Progress
Answer: The paradox of progress is the idea that the more society moves
forward, the more problems are created. This is contradictory:
advancements in technology, for example, are supposed to make life
easier; however, they often have the opposite effect.
●● PMESII-PT
Answer: Political
Military
,Economic
Social
Information
Infrastructure
Physical Environment
Time
●● Treaty of Westphalia
Answer: Ended Thirty Years War in 1648;
•National self-determination
•Respect boundaries of sovereign states
•Non-interference in states' domestic affairs
●● Sovereignty
Answer: •States are self-governing
• States manage their internal affairs
• Other states will not violate
• At the heart of international system
,From Peace of Westphalia
●● Montevideo Conference
Answer: A treaty signed at Montevideo, Uruguay on December 26,
1933, at the Seventh International Conference of American States that
set out the definition, rights and duties of statehood. At this conference,
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State
Cordell Hull declared the so-called Good Neighbor Policy, which
opposed U.S. armed intervention in inter-American affairs. This was a
FDR's diplomatic attempt to reverse the perception of "Yankee
imperialism," brought about by policies instituted (largely) by his uncle,
President Theodore Roosevelt. The convention was signed by 19 states,
3 with reservations
●● Definition of a state
Answer: •Permanent population
• Defined territory
• A government
• Capacity to enter into relations
with the other states
, ●● Political Realism
Answer: A philosophy that sees each nation acting principally in its own
interest. Progress via competition. Zero sum game.
●● Political Liberalism
Answer: States are good. Progress via cooperation.
●● Power
Answer: the ability of one person to get another person to act in
accordance with the first person's intentions. • Power as a means, the
strength or capacity that provides the "ability to influence the behavior
of other actors in accordance with one's own objectives." - David
Jablonsky
●● End State
Answer: The set of required conditions that defines achievement of the
commander's objectives.
●● Strategic Objectives
Answer: Strategic objectives, if accomplished, create or contribute to the
creation of strategic effects that lead to the achievement of the desired
end state at the corresponding level of strategy, ultimately serving
national interests.
PAPER QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED ANSWERS
●● Jus in Bello Standards (2)
Answer: - Discrimination
- Proportionality
- Indispensability
- Law & Treaty
●● The Levels of Warfare are what?
Answer: Strategic, Operational, Tactical
●● Paradox of Progress
Answer: The paradox of progress is the idea that the more society moves
forward, the more problems are created. This is contradictory:
advancements in technology, for example, are supposed to make life
easier; however, they often have the opposite effect.
●● PMESII-PT
Answer: Political
Military
,Economic
Social
Information
Infrastructure
Physical Environment
Time
●● Treaty of Westphalia
Answer: Ended Thirty Years War in 1648;
•National self-determination
•Respect boundaries of sovereign states
•Non-interference in states' domestic affairs
●● Sovereignty
Answer: •States are self-governing
• States manage their internal affairs
• Other states will not violate
• At the heart of international system
,From Peace of Westphalia
●● Montevideo Conference
Answer: A treaty signed at Montevideo, Uruguay on December 26,
1933, at the Seventh International Conference of American States that
set out the definition, rights and duties of statehood. At this conference,
United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of State
Cordell Hull declared the so-called Good Neighbor Policy, which
opposed U.S. armed intervention in inter-American affairs. This was a
FDR's diplomatic attempt to reverse the perception of "Yankee
imperialism," brought about by policies instituted (largely) by his uncle,
President Theodore Roosevelt. The convention was signed by 19 states,
3 with reservations
●● Definition of a state
Answer: •Permanent population
• Defined territory
• A government
• Capacity to enter into relations
with the other states
, ●● Political Realism
Answer: A philosophy that sees each nation acting principally in its own
interest. Progress via competition. Zero sum game.
●● Political Liberalism
Answer: States are good. Progress via cooperation.
●● Power
Answer: the ability of one person to get another person to act in
accordance with the first person's intentions. • Power as a means, the
strength or capacity that provides the "ability to influence the behavior
of other actors in accordance with one's own objectives." - David
Jablonsky
●● End State
Answer: The set of required conditions that defines achievement of the
commander's objectives.
●● Strategic Objectives
Answer: Strategic objectives, if accomplished, create or contribute to the
creation of strategic effects that lead to the achievement of the desired
end state at the corresponding level of strategy, ultimately serving
national interests.
