Doctrine and Grand Strategy

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Overview of the history and current status of US military doctrine and national security policy. The course will include a history of US operational planning through the Cold War, the 1990s, the War on Terror, and current planning for potential conflict with great power rivals. Further, the course will relate doctrine to changes in US national security strategy under Presidents Clinton, Bush (43), Obama, and Trump. In addition, the course will introduce the concept of ‘Grand Strategy’ and summarize arguments for how the US should consider its security in terms of world order.