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3.00 Credits
Description: This course highlights the Vietnam conflict, the Reagan defense buildup and Operation Desert Storm. In addition, the impact of the Vietnam experience on the American political, economic and social landscapes during and after war will be considered.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course is an examination of the conflicts, crises and politics of the Cold War with special emphases on the German-Berlin problem, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Middle East wars. Primary sources will be augmented with scholarly analyses and contemporary accounts to afford political and social perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course explores the many strains of thought and political and technological developments that came together to make Germany a mighty power. Militarism, nationalism, autocracy, industrialism, totalitarianism and democracy are all themes featured as student examine how and why Germany gained such prominence.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Students investigate the uses of naval power in peace and war since 1900, using a comparative approach to naval leadership, strategy, tactics, technology, joint operations and social and cultural contexts. The navies of Great Britain, Germany, Imperial Japan, the Soviet Union and the United States receive the closest scrutiny.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course includes analysis of interaction between the civilian population and the military during war. Students examine contributions and resistance of minority groups and women along with economic, political, social and cultural changes brought about by military conflicts. Primary sources, including diaries, letters and speeches, newspapers and magazines, present a picture of each crisis.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Historical practice and ethical reflection suggest that miliary action by one state against another has moral limits. This course addresses both the question of when a country can justly go to war and what is ethically required of participants within a war.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Students investigate Holy war (ethnic cleansing) in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The course includes examination of beliefs, values and historical traditions shared by religions and analyzes the theologies of war and peace in the Tenakh, the New Testament and the Quarn. Student also examine the fundamentalist "Battle for God" in these religions, concluding with an analysis of extremist groups.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course addresses non-combat roles performed by the U.S. military. The occupation of Germany and Japan after World War II, state building and peacekeeping missions around the globe are evaluated. Course content includes focus on democratization and cultural reorientation through political, educational, economic and cultural institutions.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course focuses on the evolution of special operations forces during and since World War II. To the extent possible, anti-terrorst and clandestine measures by and in conjunction with military forces are examined first-hand using unclassified sources and scholarly assessments.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Students examine terrorism and other forms of unconventional warfare, including goals and methods of psychological, chemical and biological warfare. The idealogical foundations of political, economic and social conditions associated with terrorist activities are analyzed.
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