| COURSE | TITLE | EFF YEAR | EFF TERM | DEPARTMENT | CREDIT HOURS | ||||
| HI385 | WAR & ITS THEORISTS | 2025 | 2 | History | 3.0 (BS=0.0, ET=0.0, MA=0.0) | ||||
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| This course engages with the development of military theory as an intersection of military and intellectual history. As a military history course, it addresses the history of the practice of warfare. As an intellectual history course, it explores the relationship between ideas and human behavior. The fusion of these two approaches engages with influential theorists and practitioners (including Clausewitz, Corbett, Liddell Hart, Brodie, and others) to examine how the intellectual currents of their respective eras intersected with their ideas on the utility of armed force, and how subsequent eras reinterpreted theories and ideas to align with their own views of war. | |||||||||
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| SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: | |||||||||
| Two 800-1000-word papers; compensatory time provided. | |||||||||
| TYPE | COURSE | EFF YEAR | EFF TERM | TRACK | RED BOOK FLG |
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| HI301 | 1984 | 1 | 1 | Y | |
| HI351 | 1985 | 1 | 2 | Y | |
| AYT | #SECT/SIZE | CPBLTY | ENRLD | WAIT | SEATS | CLOSED | DETAILS | ||
| 2025 - 2 | 2 | 18 | 36 | 22 | 0 | 14 | Y | Hours | |
| COURSE | TITLE | EFF YEAR | EFF TERM | DEPARTMENT | CREDIT HOURS | ||||
| HI385 | WAR & ITS THEORISTS | 1978 | 1 | History | 3.0 (BS=0.0, ET=0.0, MA=0.0) | ||||
| SCOPE | |||||||||
| Along with great commanders in history, there have been men who theorized about the nature and conduct of war, the relationship between politics and strategy, and the impact of warfare upon society. The course examines the contributions of selected theorists (Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, Jomini, Mahan, Fuller, Liddell Hart, Brodie, etc.). The student reads the theorists' major writings, analyzes their principal ideas, and studies their influence on military affairs. This will help the student reach his or her own conclusions about fundamental questions concerning the conduct and fundamental nature of war, such as the relative strength of offense vs. defense, or of material vs. morale factors. | |||||||||
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| SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: | |||||||||
| Two 800-1000-word papers; compensatory time provided. | |||||||||
| TYPE | COURSE | EFF YEAR | EFF TERM | TRACK | RED BOOK FLG |
| CO REQUISITE | |||||
| HI301 | 1984 | 1 | 1 | Y | |
| HI351 | 1985 | 1 | 2 | Y | |