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SEST-501 Grand Strategy and Military Operations

SEST-501 Grand Strategy and Military Operations
Sterling, Meigs, Grissom, Gordon, Rabon, Bateman
This course seeks to give students an understanding of the elements of grand strategy and insight into military operations that will provide a baseline of knowledge for their work toward their Masters in Security Studies and beyond. The course will explore the following issues in detail: 1. The development of national decisions to use military force, the derivation of warfighting strategy and strategic aims that follow, and the operational plan and execution of campaigns to achieve them; 2. The civil-military relationship in the development of strategy and the execution of campaigns; 3. The evolution of operational capability over time and the evolution of the relative roles air, land, and seapower; and 4. The differing demands of conventional and unconventional warfare on the conduct of operations.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: By Program Permission Only - SSP Students Only

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Spring '10: Russell, Richard L. (file download)
Spring '10: Russell, R. (file download)
Spring '10: Mark Herman (file download)
Fall '09: Meigs, M (file download)
Fall '09: Meigs, Montgomery C. (file download)
Fall '09: Grissom, Adam (file download)
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