Which of the following is an example of how the Obama administration's policies do NOT represent a real change from the Bush administration?
a. The escalation of the number of unmanned drone attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan
b. The pursuit and killing of Osama bin Laden
c. The abandonment of the plan to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay
d. The adoption of the surge strategy in Afghanistan
e. All of the above are true.
The nuanced strategy of the Obama doctrine encompasses all of the following approaches except
a. reliance on multilateralism.
b. focus on drone strikes.
c. maintaining effective questioning processes at Guantanamo Bay.
d. limiting American military actions.
e. greater reliance on the CIA and Special Operations Forces.
The Obama administration took all of the following initial steps at home to promote environmental change except
a. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointing a special envoy for climate change.
b. spending 80 billion of the 2009 stimulus to advance green jobs..
c. successfully getting the Senate to pass a cap-and-trade bill mandating limits on greenhouse gases.
d. setting new emission standards for new vehicles built for 2017 through 2025.
e. President Obama personally attending the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Which of the following is NOT one of the Obama administration's new directives on when nuclear weapons would be used by the United States?
a. Weapons would never be used as a second-strike attack; options will always be limited to first-strike capabilities.
b. Weapons would never be used against nonnuclear states that are parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
c. Weapons would never be used against states that are fully in compliance with, but not parties to the NPT.
d. The US response would generally be limited to conventional weapons when facing war-making states that use chemical or biological weapons against the United States.
e. The potential to use nuclear weapons remains intact when against other nuclear powers and those states are not in compliance with the NPT.
Which of the following are acknowledged global commons concerns of the Obama administration?
a. Nuclear nonproliferation
b. Global financial reform
c. Climate change
d. Options A and B are true.
e. All of the above are true.
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