Layne - Fall 2012 - Bush School of Government and Public Service
Layne - Fall 2012 - Bush School of Government and Public Service
Layne - Fall 2012 - Bush School of Government and Public Service
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Beatrice Heuser, The Evolution <strong>of</strong> Strategy, Chapters 12-14.<br />
David McIsaac, “Voices from the Central Blue: The Air Power Theorists” in Peter Paret <strong>and</strong><br />
Gordon A. Craig, eds., Makers <strong>of</strong> Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, pp.<br />
624-647.<br />
Lawrence Freedman, “The First Two Generations <strong>of</strong> Nuclear Strategists,” in Peter Paret <strong>and</strong><br />
Gordon A. Craig, eds., Makers <strong>of</strong> Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age, pp.<br />
735-778.<br />
Week 7 (8 October)<br />
PRACTICING GRAND STRATEGY: HISTORICAL CASE STUDIES<br />
Imperial Recessional: Britain <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Gr<strong>and</strong> Strategy <strong>of</strong> Decline<br />
Kennedy, The Rise <strong>and</strong> <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>of</strong> British Naval Mastery, pp. 239-298.<br />
John Gooch, “The Weary Titan: Strategy <strong>and</strong> Policy in Great Britain, 1890-1918,” in in Murray,<br />
Knox, & Bernstein, The Making <strong>of</strong> Strategy, pp. 278-306.<br />
Williamson Murray, “The Collapse <strong>of</strong> Empire: British Strategy, 1919-1945,” in Murray, Knox, &<br />
Bernstein, The Making <strong>of</strong> Strategy, pp. 393-427.<br />
Zara Steiner, “The <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>of</strong> Great Britain,” in Geir Lundestad, ed., The <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>of</strong> Great Powers: Peace,<br />
Stability, <strong>and</strong> Legitimacy, pp. 47-80.<br />
Week 8 (15 October)<br />
WORLD WAR I<br />
Background: The Age <strong>of</strong> Total War<br />
Beatrice Heuser, The Evolution <strong>of</strong> Strategy, Chapters 5-7<br />
Germany: The Strategy <strong>of</strong> a Continental Power<br />
Marcus Jones, “Strategy as Character: Bismarck <strong>and</strong> the Prusso-German Question, 1862-1878" in<br />
Murray, Simmreich, <strong>and</strong> Lacey, The Shaping <strong>of</strong> Strategy<br />
Holger H. Herwig, “Strategic Uncertainties <strong>of</strong> a Nation-State: Prussia-Germany, 1871-1918,” in in<br />
Murray, Knox, & Bernstein, The Making <strong>of</strong> Strategy, pp. 242-277.<br />
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