Grand Strategy and National Security

Catalog description

This course gives students key insights into the basic elements of grand strategy and how these tie into Security Studies. The course gives students a unique baseline of knowledge that will be important as students move into the other aspects of the Security Studies program. Key issues addressed in detail include: 1) The national security decision making process, par - ticularly as it relates to issues of international and homeland security; 2) Civil-military relations as applicable in the development of strategy and statecraft; 3) An analysis of how nation-states develop military op- erational capabilities and readiness; and 4) The differing strategies for international conflict, including both conventional and unconventional warfare.