Ground Combat Quiz v1

1. Welcome, Challenge, and Basic Information

This is a challenging, intensive quiz designed to both test your knowledge of 20th-21st Century ground combat and to encourage you to rethink basic assumptions that underpin our collective discourse on warfare. It should take you about 13 minutes to complete. You will see your answers to scored questions at the end.

Data and research used to build this quiz are published in the Ground Combat Database - Version 1 (GCD-V1) available early March 2025 at groundcombat.org, and in the book Ground Combat: Puncturing the Myths of Modern War by Ben Connable, currently available for pre-order on Amazon.com, Georgetown University Press, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.org.

Answering the following two multiple-choice, anonymized questions will help improve this quiz and its impact for professional use.

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* 1. Check the box that best describes your profession or role.

Military professional (active, reserve, retired, other)

Policy professional (active or retired)

Civil service professional (active or retired)

Academic professional (active or retired)

Combined military-academic professional (active in both, one, or retired from both)

Combined military-policy professional (active in both, one, or retired from both)

Interested civilian

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* 2. How many years of professional experience do you have in fields related to military, defense policy, or international affairs planning, operations, and leadership, and-or to military-focused academic research?

No professional experience in these fields

1-2 years

3-5 years

6-10 years

11-20 years

21-30 years

More than 30 years