Masters of War: History’s Greatest Strategic Thinkers
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Taught by Professor Andrew R. Wilson U.S. NAVAL WAR COLLEGE
LECTURE TITLES 1. Why Strategy Matters 2. Thucydides on Strategy 3. Thucydides as a Possession for All Time 4. Sun Tzu’s The Art of War 5. Sun Tzu through Time 6. Machiavelli’s The Art of War 7. Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy 8. The Napoleonic Revolution in War 9. Baron Jomini as a Strategist 10. Clausewitz’s On War 11. Jomini and Clausewitz through the Ages 12. From Sail to Steam—The Sea-Power Revolution
13. Alfred Thayer Mahan 14. Sir Julian Corbett 15. Mahan, Corbett, and the Pacifi c War 16. Air Power in Theory and Practice 17. From Rolling Thunder to Instant Thunder 18. Nuclear Strategy 19. Mao Tse-tung in Theory and Practice 20. Classics of Counterinsurgency 21. Just-War Theory 22. Terrorism as Strategy 23. Strategies of Counterterrorism 24. From the Jaws of Defeat— Strategic Adaptation
Masters of War:
History’s Greatest Strategic Thinkers Course no. 9422 | 24 lectures (30 minutes/lecture)
What Can History’s Masters of
War Teach Us Today? From Napoleon’s revolutionary campaigns to the ways insurgency and terrorism have defined war in the 21st
century, military strategy and its
outcomes have altered the course of history. And while the means of warfare may change, the classics of strategic thought endure.
Crafted by Professor Andrew R. Wilson—who taught at Harvard and now teaches at the elite U.S. Naval War College—Masters of War: History’s Greatest Strategic Thinkers offers an in-depth look at the world’s most brilliant strategists. These 24 eye-opening lectures will give you a new appreciation for the subtleties and complexities of military strategy and the decisive ways leaders adapt to the realm of fog, friction, and chance.
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