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Effective 21st century strategy is not a product of new technology but highstrategic high strategic IQ, and this course builds the foundation to accomplish it. You will consider the concept of strategy and how it differs from tactics, bureaucracy, and academic theory and why failure to do this ends up with ruinous effect — as evidenced in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. You will examine universal strategies for the strong, the weak and most things in between. We will consider the ideas of Sun Tzu, Kautilya, Jomini, Clausewitz, Mao, T.E. Lawrence, Galula and other scholar-practitioners. Seminars will be augmented by simulations and guest speakers and will provide students not just that they would gain at the national war colleges but go sufficiently deep to ensure students will understand what it would take to fight and win 21st century conflicts.
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