Friday, February 2: War and the birth of the modern state

Brodie and Brodie, From Crossbow to H-Bomb, chapters 1-3
Keegan, Face of Battle 78-114.
Howard, War in European History, chapters 1-2 (1-38)

Tuesday, February 6: Limited war: Frederick the Great and the 18th century war

Howard, War in European History, 54-75
R. R. Palmer, “Frederick the Great, Guibert, Bulow: From Dynastic to National War,” in Paret, Makers of Modern Strategy, 91-119

Friday, February 9: Wars of the Napoleonic Revolution

Keegan, Face of Battle, 117-200
Brodie and Brodie, From Crossbow to H-Bomb, Chapter 6

War in the 19th century

Industrialization, nationalism, and war

Tuesday, February 13: Industrialization, bureaucratization, and the science of strategy

Peter Paret, “Clausewitz,” in Paret, Makers of Modern Strategy, 186-213
Brodie, Strategy as a Science, in World Politics, vol. 1, no. 4, 467-488.
Brodie and Brodie, From Crossbow to H-Bomb, chapter 7

Friday, February 16: Changes in weapons, continued, and Wars of Unification and the Civil War

Ropp War in the Modern World, Chapter 6, 161-194
Howard, “Men Against Fire: Expectations of War in 1914.” International Security, 9(1), 4-57, 511-526
Howard, War in European History, chapter 6

Tuesday, February 20: Warfare and colonialism

Douglas Porch, “Bugeaud, Gallieni, Lyautey: The Development of French Colonial Warfare,” in Paret, Makers of Modern Strategy, 376-407
Ropp, War in the Modern World, 206-215

Friday, February 23: World War I: The plans and the opening battles

Ropp, War in the Modern World, Chapter 215-245
Gunther E. Rothenberg, “Moltke, Schlieffen, and the Doctrine of Strategic Envelopment”, in Paret, Makers of Modern Strategy 296-325
Brodie, Strategy in the Missile Age, (Princeton: Princeton University Press), chapter 2*

Tuesday, February 27: Trench warfare and the search for new weapons

Keegan, Face of Battle, 207-285

Friday, March 2: Conduct at sea: submarine warfare

Philip A. Crowl, “Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Naval Historian” in Paret, Makers of Modern Strategy 444-477
Karl Lautenschlager, “Technology and the Evolution of Naval Warfare”, International Security, vol. 8, no 2, 3-51.

Tuesday, March 6: Conduct in the East and the final battles

Ropp, War in the Modern World 251-275
Biddle, chapter on Operation Michael, in Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004)*

Friday, March 9: Interwar

Ropp, War in the Modern World 275-313
I. B. Holley, “The Development of Weapons: Procedures and Doctrine,” in Ideas and Weapons (Hamden: 1953), 3-22*
Edward L. Katzenbach, “The Horse Cavalry in the Twentieth Century: A study in policy response”, in Friedrich and Harris Public Policy, vol. 8 (1958),120-49*

Tuesday, March 27: World War II in Europe: doctrine and opening battles

Ropp, War in the Modern World 314-58
Gerhard L. Weinberg, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp 536-574.*

Friday, March 30: World War II: Western Front (Normandy) and Eastern Front

Ropp, War in the Modern World, 359-390
Max Hastings, Overlord (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984 chapter 6, pp 230-43, and chapter 9*
Martin Van Creveld, Supplying War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977) Chapter 5, 141-180*

Tuesday, April 3: World War II: The battle at sea, the battle in the air

Brodie, Strategy in the Missile Age, ch 3-4*
Kent Greenfield, American Strategy in World War II, (Krieger Publishing Company), Chapter 4*

Friday, April 6: Pacific War: Ground, sea, and air

D. Clayton James, “American and Japanese Strategies in the Pacific War,” in Paret,
Makers of Modern Strategy 703-732
Ropp, War in the Modern World, 359-382

Brodie and Brodie, From Crossbow to H-Bomb, ch 9-10
David A. Rosenberg, “U.S. Nuclear Planning, 1945-1960.” Strategic Nuclear Targeting, edited by Desmond Ball and Jeffrey Richelson (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986), 35-56*
Schwartz et al, ed, Atomic Audit: the Costs and Consequences of Nuclear Weapons since 1940, (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998), Chapter 3, 197-241*

Schwartz et. Al. , Atomic Audit, chapter 4, 269-327.*
Jeffrey Record, “Nuclear Deterrence, Preventive War, and Counterproliferation,” Policy Analysis, no. 519, July 8, 2004, 1-32
Robert W. Nelson, “Nuclear Bunker Busters, Mini-Nukes, and the U.S. Nuclear Stockpile,” Physics Today (November 2003) (32-37)

Tuesday, April 24: A “conventional” RMA? Changes in technology, culture and war

Richard J. Harknett and the JCISS Study Group, “The Risks of a Networked Military,” Orbis, (Winter 2000): 127-43
Brian C. Lewis, “Information Warfare and the Intelligence Community,” in The Final Report of the Snyder Commission, edited by Edward Cheng and Diane C. Snyder (Princeton: The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, January 1997)
Malcolm Braily, “Not Many Jobs Take a Whole Army: Special Operations Forces and the Revolution in Military Affairs,” Singapore Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (March 2004)

James William Gibson, “Technowar at Ground Level: Search-and-Destroy as Assembly Line,” in The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam (New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000): 93-154*
Stephen D. Biddle, “Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy,” (November 2002)
Stephen Biddle, “Operation Desert Storm,” in Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004)*
Jeffrey Record, “The Limits and Temptations of America’s Conventional Military Primacy”, Survival, vol. 47(1), Spring 2005, 33-50*

Tuesday, May 9: Conclusion

Michael Howard, “The Forgotten Dimensions of Strategy”, Foreign Affairs, vol. 57, no. 5, 975-986
Keegan, The Face of Battle, chapter 5, “The Future of Battle”, pp 290-343
Warner R. Schilling, “Technology and International Relations,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (1968), vol. 15, pp. 589-598.*