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Masters of War:
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Course no. 9422 | 24 lectures (30 minutes/lecture)

Masters of War: History’s
Greatest Strategic Thinkers

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


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