Military History in the Western Tradition

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The purpose of this course is to survey and analyze the American military experience from its colonial origins to today's "war on terrorism." This course, then, looks most closely at operational military history. We will employ the "new military history" to 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, we will study the effects of U.S. society on its military and the reverse, in particular civil-military relations.