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IR-505 Dimensions of Modern Strategy
Course Outline
Lecturer
Syed Muhammad Ali
Department of International Relations
Faculty of Contemporary Studies
National Defence University
2011
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This core Course is aimed at introducing the students of International Relations to the basicconceptual framework of strategy and its relationship with modern statecraft and international
Politics. This will be followed by a brief exposure to selected Classical works on strategic thought,
its various contemporary theoretical and practical aspects and finally understanding its variousmodern and evolving dimensions and also their relevance with the Classics.
The students are expected to not only develop an understanding of the relationship betweenstatecraft, national interests, policy and the diverse range of strategic means available to the state but
also to be able to critically appreciate the difficult yet essential relationship between politics and
various elements of power.
The Students are encouraged to consult a variety of contemporary and classical texts and develop an
understanding of the modern strategic issues by actively engaging in academic debates in the form of
Class participation, Presentations, Group Discussions and by also writing book reviews of relevantand credible literary works on strategic affairs and issues.
The Course will be structured into the following six thematic sections:
A. Strategy: Theoretical and Conceptual framework (Week 1-3)
1. Man, State and War
2. Strategic Theory and the History of warfare
3. Law, Politics and the Use of Force
4. The Causes of War and the Conditions of Peace
B. Introduction and interpretation of Classics (Week 4-5)
5. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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6. Arthasastra on War and Diplomacy by Kautilya
7. On War by Clausewitz
8. Strategy: The indirect approach by Basil Liddell Hart
9. Arms and Influence by Thomas C. Schelling
C. Conventional Strategy and Evolution of Joint-warfare (Week 6-8)
10. Land Warfare: Theory and Practice
11. Sea Power: Theory and Practice
12. Air Power: Theory and Practice
D. Contemporary Approaches to Strategic Affairs (Week 9-12)
13. Deterrence in the Post-Cold War World
14. Arms Control and Disarmament
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15. Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
16. Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice
E. Issues affecting Grand Strategy (Week 13- 14)
17. Technology and Warfare
18. Weapons of Mass Destruction
19. Humanitarian Intervention and Peace Operations
20. Psychological Warfare
21. Space Warfare and Defence
F. Future of Strategy and Warfare (Week 15-16)
22. A New Agenda for Security and Strategy
23. Strategic Studies and the problems of power
24. Non-Kinetic Warfare
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9. John Keegan,Intelligence in War, Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Qaeda,
Hutchinson, London, 2003
10.Timothy N. Jones, Modern Military Strategy: Clausewitz, Jomini and the development of
German Theory, East Tennessee State University, 1994
11.Edited by Peter Paret, Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age,Oxford, 1986
12.Lawrence Freedman, The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy, 2nd editon, MacMillan, 1989
13.Bernard Brodie, The Absolute Weapon: Atomic Power and World Order, Harcourt, Brace
and Co., 1946
14. Bernard Brodie, Escalation and the Nuclear Option, Princeton, 1966
15.Samuel P. Huntington, The Soldier and the State, Random House, New York,1957
16.John Stoessinger, Why Nations go to War, 5
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Edition, Services Book Club, Rawalpindi, 2003
17.Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Translated by Thomas Cleary, Shambala, Boston, 2005
18.Boesche, Roger,Kautilyas Arthasastra on War and Diplomacy in Ancient India, TheJournal of Military History, Vol. 67, Number 1, 2003, 9-37
19.Carl von Clausewitz, On War. Edited and translated by Michael Howard and Peter Peret.Princeton University Press. 1984
20.Hans J. Morgenthau, revised by Kenneth Thompson,Politics among Nations: The Struggle
for Power and Peace, 6th edition, Vanguard, 1985
21.Thomas Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, Harvard, 1980
22.Thomas Schelling,Arms and Influence, Yale, 1967
23.Rapoport & Chammah, Prisoner's Dilemma, The University of Michigan, Michigan. 1965
24.Herman Kahn, On Escalation: Metaphors and Scenarios, Transaction Publishers, New
Jersey, 2010
25.Bert Chapman, Space Warfare and Defence, ABC Clio, Oxford, 2008