U.S. Military History I

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This course will consist of reading, writing, simulating, analyzing, and discussing the subject matter. Because the class is primarily designed for Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Cadets, the course will also examine the evolution of U.S. joint and coalition operations in the context of warfare in the Western World. This course looks most closely at operational military history. Far from taking only a "bullets and bayonets" view of the American military past, the course will also examine the effect on operations of policy ("ends") and strategy ("ways"), the human experience in battle ("face of battle"), increasingly complex technology ("means"), and geography ("fields of battle"). In addition, this course evaluates the effects of U.S. society on its military and the reverse, in particular civil-military relations.