Lesson 1

Grand Strategy: Theory and Practice

Charles Krauthammer, “In Defense of Democratic Realism,” The National Interest, Fall 2004, 77.”

John Lewis Gaddis, “Grand Strategy in the Second Term,” Foreign Affairs, January/February 2005.

Lesson 2

National Security Decision Making

Lesson 3

Economics and Policy

Lesson 4

Intelligence and Policy

Seymour M. Hersh, “The Coming Wars,” The New Yorker, January 24/31, 2005.

Lesson 5

Total Force

Lesson 6

National Strategic Planning

Lesson 7

WWII: Pre-War Strategy and Planning

Lesson 8

WWII: Why the Allies Won.

Lesson 9

National Security Strategy During the Cold War (with Vietnam Case Study)

Lesson 10

The UN and NATO in the Post-Cold War Era

Lesson 11

Post-Cold War Contemporary Issues: China

Mark Helprin, “Beyond the Rim,” The Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2004

Lesson 12

Post-Cold War Contemporary Issues: The Middle East