Military Forces in Contemporary World

This course aims to provide students with a basic knowledge of the contemporary warfare and military force in the post-Cold War world. Included in the course are introductions to military strategy and warfare, history, WMD, the roles of technology in modern warfare, and the concept of strategy in response to global changes. Course is composed of lectures, on cases of military forces use in the post-Cold War international environment and weekly discussions.

Michael Sheehan, The Evolution of Modern Warfare, [In] Strategy in the Contemporary World, 4th ed., John Baylis, James J. Wirtz, Colin S. Gray (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013, pp. 39-59.

US Congressional Research Service, “Renewed Great Power Competition: Implications for Defense- Issues for Congress.” 1/27/21.

“What is Great-Power Competition, Anyway?” Alexander Boroff. Modern War Institute. 4/17/20. https://mwi.usma.edu/great-power-competition-anyway/

“Bourdieu and the bomb: Power, Language, and doxic battle over the value of nuclear weapons.” Martin Senn, Christoph Elhardt. European Journal of International Relations. 2014 Vol 20(2) 316-340.

“History of Global Arms Transfer,” (2020), Chapter 10, pp. 121-144, “Weapons of Mass Destruction: Historicizing the Concept.” Ido Oren and Ty Solomon.

The Rand Corporation, “Armed Drone Myth” series. Lynn E. Davis, Michael J. McNerney, Daniel Byman. 2/17/15.

Eliot Cohen, Technology and Warfare, [In] Strategy in the Contemporary World, 4th ed., John Baylis, James J. Wirtz, Colin S. Gray (eds.),Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press 2013, pp. 132-150.

“Evaluating the fake news problem at the scale of the information ecosystem.” Jennifer Allen, Baird Howland, Markus Mobius, David Rothschild, Duncan J. Watts. Science Advances/Research Article.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/14/eaay3539

“A Genocide Incited on Facebook, With posts from Myanmar’s Military.” Pual Mozur. The New York Times 10/15/2018. https://nyti.ms/2QToYQA

Russian Private Military Companies: Their use and how to consider them in operations, competitions, and conflict.” April 2020. Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

“Can’t win with ‘em, cant’ go to war without ‘em: Private Military Contractors and Counterinsurgency.” P.W. Singer. The Brookings Institute Policy Paper Number 4, September 2007.

“The Montreux Document.” Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft. Conferdation Suisse. International Committee of the Red Cross. 2009

John S. Duffield, Alliances, [In] Security Studies: an Introduction, 2nd ed., Paul D. Williams (ed.), London & New York: Routledge, 2013, pp. 339-354.

“Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China.” (2020). US Department of Defense Annual Report to Congress.

“Beating the Americans as their own game: An offset strategy with Chinese characteristics.” (2019). Robert O. Work, Grent Grant. Center for New American Security.

Summary of the 2018 National Defense Strategy of the United States of America. US Department of Defense.

“Averting Crisis: American Strategy, Military Spending, and Collective Defense in the Indo-Pacific.” (2019). (Executive Summary, pp. 2-3 and Part One; Strategic Challenges.). Ashley Townshend, Brendan Thomas-Noone, Matilda Steward. The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

“Why America Needs a New Way of War.” 6/12/19. Chris Daugherty. Center for New American Security. https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/anawow