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Studies in Military ThoughtHistory 768 E-mail: grimsley.1@osu.edu Overview This graduate readings course focuses on major themes in the making of national strategy, as well as basic issues that underpin the making of strategy; e.g., the nature and causes of war. The emphasis is on preparation for the Ph.D. general examination. Books are available at SBX. Many may also be purchased more inexpensively through Amazon.com Enrollment All students must be officially enrolled in the course by the end of the second full week of the quarter. No requests to add the course will be approved by the department chair after that time. Enrolling officially and on time is solely the responsibility of each student. Requirements A short review (1,000 words) and a 3,000-word essay response to a question of the sort given in Ph.D. general examinations. The review is due in class during the fourth week of class. The essay is due in class during the eighth week of class. A revised version of the essay (incorporating my critique) is due at close of business Thursday during finals week. Class ScheduleWeek 1. Organizational; administrative Week 2. The Nature of War Robert L. O'Connell, Ride of the Second Horseman: The Birth and Death of War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Week 3. The Causes of War Geoffrey Blainey, The Causes of War. 3rd Edition. New York: Free Press, 1988. Week 4. The Ethics of War Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations. 3rd Edition. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Week 5. War Termination Fred Charles Iklé, Every War Must End. Revised Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. Week 6. The “Great Mind” Model of Strategy - I Peter Paret, Felix Gilbert, and Gordon A. Craig (eds.) Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986. pp. 1-213 Week 7. Clausewitz Carl von Clausewitz, On War. Michael Howard, Peter Paret, and Bernard Brodie, eds. Indexed Edition. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989. Week 8. The Strategy-as-Process Model – I Williamson Murray, Alvin Bernstein , and MacGregor Knox (eds.), The Making of Strategy : Rulers, States, and War. New York: Cambridge Univ Press, 1996. pp. 1-351 Week 9. The “Great Mind” Model of Strategy - II Paret, ed. Makers of Modern Strategy, 217-871 (excerpts) Week 10. The Strategy-as-Process Model – II The Making of Strategy, p. 352-645 Week 11. (Finals Week) Case Study: Contemporary American Strategy Optional Readings: Joseph S. Nye, Jr. The Paradox of American Power: Why the World’s Only Superpower Can’t Go It Alone. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Lawrence F. Kaplan and William Kristol, The War Over Iraq: Saddam’s Tyranny and America’s Mission. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2003.
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