<p>Take an inside look at both the content and historical context of the world’s greatest war strategists, guided by a member of the elite U.S. Naval War College. You’ll gain a new appreciation for the subtleties and complexities of strategy, in war and otherwise.</p>
Masters of War: History's Greatest Strategic Thinkers
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Why Strategy Matters
- 02: Thucydides on Strategy
- 03: Thucydides as a Possession for All Time
- 04: Sun Tzu's The Art of War
- 05: Sun Tzu through Time
- 06: Machiavelli's The Art of War
- 07: Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy
- 08: The Napoleonic Revolution in War
- 09: 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 Pacific 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
Taught by
Andrew R. Wilson
