LEAD 475
Modern Warfare and Military Leadership
Last Offered Fall 2012
Division II
Cross-listed HIST 475
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

From the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century, modern history has been marked by numerous wars fought by nation states. Some of these wars were enormously destructive. Some changed history decisively on a continental or global scale. This modern period of warfare witnessed rapid and dramatic changes in the manner military forces were organized, armed, and led, and in their scale and lethalness. From the smoothbore musket to the machine gun, sailing warships to dreadnaught battleships, horse-pulled artillery to the atomic bomb, submarines under the seas and warplanes in the skies, to rockets and smart weapons, war rapidly evolved and continues to evolve today. This course will study these developments, concentrating on conflicts like the Napoleonic wars, the American Civil War, World War I and World War II, with special emphasis upon the evolution of military leaders like Napoleon, Grant and Lee, Moltke, Churchill and Roosevelt, Stalin and Hitler, Nelson and Doenitz, Eisenhower and MacArthur. Is it leadership that provides the key to our understanding of modern warfare? Or is it technology? Or certain “timeless” military principles that transcend local historical contexts? Can history help us foresee the future of warfare?
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 1468
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation will be based on a substantial (no upper limit) research paper on a topic of the student's choice, growing out of some aspect of the course
Extra Info: participants will also, in teams of two or three, lead class discussion at least once, as well as give class reports on the course readings
Extra Info 2: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the Gaudino option
Prerequisites: advanced courses in History
Enrollment Preferences: senior, then junior, History majors
Distributions: Division II
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
LEAD 475 Division II HIST 475 Division II
Attributes: HIST Group C Electives - Europe and Russia
HIST Group F Electives - U.S. + Canada
LEAD Facets or Domains of Leadership
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