3 credits
Summer 2026 Distance Learning Upper DivisionVariable Title
This course, whose specific topics might change, focuses on strategy and military studies on a global scale. The course will be rooted in all the elements of strategy (political, military, economic and cultural), plus strategic theory and technology's impact on it. The course exposes students to a set of historical and contemporary strategic dilemmas that involved difficult trade-offs, costly investments, wild risks, incredible victories, and crushing defeats. This is a multidisciplinary course that focuses on several core ideas and principles that cut across schools of thought and examples from past, present and future.
Learning Outcomes1Develop and analyze system-level trade-offs.
2Plan long-term on a national scale.
3Devolve authority and allowing for chance contingency while staying on mission.
4Maintain individual morals and national values in strategic thinking.
5Balance the possibilities and limits of soft power (money, prestige, culture) as strategic tools of influence.
6Examine the learning competition aspects of strategy and security.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.