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FOUNDATIONS OF STRATEGY

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FOUNDATIONS OF STRATEGY

SAASS 601
8 July 2024 - 23 July 2024


"The foundation of the study of strategy is the study of history."


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Internet Resources

Listed below is on-line information about books and their authors used in this course.

  

  • Day 1:  8 July 2024

    Winston Churchill       Biography
    The Second World War:  The Gathering Storm  (Book 1:  From War to War 1919-1939)
         
        
  • Day 2:  9 July 2024

    Pankaj Mishra      Biography
    From the Ruins of Empire:  The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
          
     
  • Day 3 & 4:  11 & 12 July 2024

    Thucydides     Biography
    The Landmark Thucydides     Review 1     Review 2   (Scroll down to pg.126)

             
  • Day 5:  15 July 2024

    Michael Green      Biography
    By More Than Providence:  Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific since 1783      Review     Publisher Description

                
  • Day 6:  16 July 2024

    Eri Hotta      Short Biography and Publisher Description
    Japan 1941:  Countdown to Infamy        Review      Book Discussion (C-SPAN video)

         
        
  • Day 7:  18 July 2024

    Graham Allison     Biography
    Phiip Zelikow     Biography
    Essence of Decision:  Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis     Review 1     Review 2 

         
        
  • Day 8:  19 July 2024

    Dominic D. P. Johnson    Short Biography and Publisher Description (click on Author(s))
    Strategic Instincts:  The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics      Review

         
        
  • Day 9:  22 July 2024

    Yuen Foong Khong     Biography
    Analogies at War:  Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965     Review 1     Review 2

         
        
  • Day 10:  23 July 2024

    Jim Sciutto    Biography
    The Return of Great powers:  Russia, China, and the Next World War         Review    Book Discussion (YouTube video)

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