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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.29402 cm} x{3.68298 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{What is Strategy?}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Strategy & Use of military force to achieve political objectives \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & When choosing between multiple ways of acting, strategy is choosing the best way to act \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Grand Strategy & Use and organisation of all natural resources to achieve political objectives \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Security & Freedom from threats to core values \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Strategic Theory}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Strategic theory & Different methods for winning wars \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Clausewitz - War and 4 contexts (essence of war) & Killing and dying \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & contest between armies, generals and states (competition mental and physical) \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & War= Instrument of policy \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & War= Social activity \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Clausewitz - The Trinity (who controls war) & People - passion \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Military - chance \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} & Government - reason (determines aims and means) \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 3) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Clausewitz - Nature of War (understanding enemy) & Centre of gravity - i. Enemy's army ii. Enemy's capital city iii. Principal ally iv. Leader vi. Public opinion \tn % Row Count 25 (+ 6) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} Clausewitz - Limited vs Unlimited War & Limited - territory or leverage for bargaining \tn % Row Count 28 (+ 3) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Unlimited - overthrow and be prepared with new government \tn % Row Count 31 (+ 3) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Strategic Theory (cont)}} \tn % Row 11 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Clausewitz - Calculus & Ends justify means \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{white} Clausewitz - Friction & i. Danger posed by enemy ii. Efforts required by own forces iii. Difficult environment. vi. intelligence \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 6) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Sun Tzu - Strategic preferance & War without blood \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{white} & Enemy's 1) strategy 2) alliances 3) army \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) % Row 15 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Sun Tzu - Intelligence & Matters only compared to enemy (think Ukraine vs Russia territory knowledge) \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 4) % Row 16 \SetRowColor{white} & Quality \textgreater{} quantity \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 1) % Row 17 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Mao - Three step plan & Revolution and strategic defence \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 2) % Row 18 \SetRowColor{white} & Guerilla and strategic stalemate \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 2) % Row 19 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Strategic counter-offensive and defeat \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.89126 cm} x{3.08574 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Modern Warfare}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Napoleon & Europe from limited Warfare, to full mobilisation (conscription) \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{Industrialisation} & Railways, steamships, telegraph - big armies \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & New weapons \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & Heavy casualties \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Naval - steamships, transport \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Total War vs Absolute War & Total - Drawing on all resources, conscription, economy towards war effort. Absolute war- fighting without restrictions \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 5) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Nuclear weapons & Ended total war era \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 1) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.09034 cm} x{2.88666 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Law and use of force}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{Perception-Reality} gap & International law is ignored vs international law usually obeyed \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & Military conflict usual vs exception \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & International law regulates force vs regulates all inter-state aspects \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & Law is prohibiting vs facilitating \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Why follow International Law? & Legitimacy \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} & Fear of coercion and consequences, self-interests \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Ad Bellum - before war & Limit resort to military forces \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} & UN Articles 2(3-4) Settle disputes by peaceful means and dont use force \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 4) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Chapter 7 UN - Right to self-defence \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} & UN Security council decides if it is legal or not, allows force. Strategically needed if you are a leader, so does not backfire (Tony Blair) \tn % Row Count 31 (+ 7) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.09034 cm} x{2.88666 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Law and use of force (cont)}} \tn % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} In Bello - in war & Governs war Conduct \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} & Geneva Convention 1949 - Victims of war \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Hague Convention 1899 and 1907 - Conduct of warfare \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.64241 cm} x{3.33459 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Technology and War}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Technology and War & Reflects the priorities of that country, environment. Speed or defence? \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Quantity vs quality & Increase in speed, protection, mobility= quality \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Increase in amounts of the weapons = quantity \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} New era of warfare & Prioritised quality \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Specialisation of military equipment \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} & Commercial technology importance \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Asymmetrical Warfare & Better technology vs guerilla \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 2) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} & Motivation very important \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 1) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Challenges today & News coverage \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} & Hard for military to find new people - possibilities outside military \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{p{0.4977 cm} p{0.4977 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Conventional Power and Contemporary Warfare}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{} \tn % Row Count 0 (+ 0) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{p{0.4977 cm} p{0.4977 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Geopolitics and Grand Strategy}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{} \tn % Row Count 0 (+ 0) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.84149 cm} x{3.13551 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Causes of War}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Human beings as causes & Inclined towards violence \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Social psychologists & aggression= results of frustration \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Wars from misconceptions} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Group thinking} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Democratic Peace theory & Democracies go to war, but not against each other \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Bargaining theory & Indivisible stakes \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Nuclear Weapons}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Nuclear deterrence & Soviets would not attack NATO, if convinced that they would retaliate with nuclear \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 5) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} & Just because high probability that something wont happen doesnt mean that it wont (take North Korea using Nuclear Weapons, or Russia using Nuclear) \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 8) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Nuclear ages & First Nuclear age 1945-1991, Second Nuclear Age now \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} & Now more states have nuclear, less nuclear weapons overall \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Deterrence & Preventing another state from doing something - making them keep their passive stance \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 5) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} & Denial - Ability to win battle, being strong enough and therefore deterring. Like having a fortress around a castle \tn % Row Count 30 (+ 6) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Nuclear Weapons (cont)}} \tn % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & Trip Wire - Being credible in "punishing" as a response \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} & Sometimes it is not obvious whether you are stronger than opponent (SK, Taiwan) \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 4) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & NATO - trip wire. Will US risk for us? All about blowing up the conflict. If small conflict in Finland how make pay attention \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 7) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NPT) & Officially NPT acknowledges Russia, US, China, UK, France \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{p{0.4977 cm} p{0.4977 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cyber Conflict and Great Powers}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{} \tn % Row Count 0 (+ 0) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}