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I. Grand Strategies: Their Origins and Their Effects |
| 1 |
Course Overview and Introduction to Grand Strategy |
| 2 |
Material Influences on Strategy: Geographical Position, National Power and Military Technology |
| 3 |
Military Organizations |
| 4 |
Nationalism |
| 5 |
The International Political System: Constraints, Incentives and Interactions |
| 6 |
Historical Case Studies |
| II. Origins of World War I |
| 7 |
The Anglo-German Rivalry (Naval and Otherwise) |
| 8 |
Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine Among the Pre-WWI Land Powers |
| 9 |
The July Crisis, Military Strategy and the Outbreak of the War |
| 10 |
The Course and Conduct of WWI |
| III. Origins of World War II |
| 11 |
British and German Grand Strategy in the 1930s |
| 12 |
French Grand Strategy |
| 13 |
Military Doctrine, Land Warfare, and the Crises of the Late 1930s |
| 14 |
The Opening Battles of the War |
