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WAR301 The Western Way of War: In this course students will examine the strengths and weaknesses of the traditional western way of war while placing them in context of the current geopolitical situation and assessing their efficacy against hybrid threats of the 21st century.
WAR301 The Western Way of War:
(a) Origins: Indo-European Expansion to Ancient Greece
(b) The Roman Republic/Empire
(c) The British Empire
(d) The American way of war
(e) The post-Westphalian construct
(f) Strengths/weaknesses of current western warfighting
(g) Towards a new era of western martial dominance
WAR303 Tactics in 4th Generation Warfare: In this course students will learn the characteristics of 4th Generation Warfare to include the components of previous warfighting models that are still relevant and how modern forces can succeed in an asymmetric situation.
WAR303 Tactics in 4th Generation Warfare:
(a) Overview of the Generational Warfare Model
(b) Understanding asymmetric conflict
(c) Raiders/swarming/hunter-killer tactics
(d) Special Operations and Law Enforcement tactics
(e) Operational art/design in a 4GW environment
(f) Case Studies in 4GW
(g) The way forward in a decentralized operating environment
WAR404 Strategy, Communications, Targeting, Planning, and Management: In this course students will learn how indigenous fighters can conduct war at the tactical, operational and strategic levels in a destabilized operating environment.
WAR404 Strategy, Communications, Targeting, Planning, and Management:
WAR404 Strategy, Communications, Targeting, Planning, and Management:
(a) United States Unconventional Warfare doctrine
(b) The tactical level of war
(c) Tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) for squads, platoons, and companies (raid/ambush, time-constrained planning, FFF targeting)
(d) The operational level of war
(e) TTPs for battalions and brigades (deliberate attack, MDMP, F3EAD targeting)
(f) The strategic level of war
(g) TTPs for command and control of war at scale (joint planning, OODA and COG analysis)
WAR503 The Study of Warfare by Non-State Actors: In this course students will study the components of insurgency, revolution, and social movements including both violent and non-violent actions by non-state actors.
WAR503 The Study of Warfare by Non-State Actors:
(a) Insurgency and revolutions
(b) Social Movement Theory
(c) Sabotage and subversion
(d) Non-violent resistance techniques
(e) Understanding terrorism
(f) Case studies of non-state actors
(g) The future of non-state soldiering