Syllabus
ON WAR II. (2nd semester) 1) Organization, deadlines, demands, and a brief outline of the course.
Blok I: Sources of battlefield effectiveness; or how to win a battle
•2) Air support, when and how it is effective? -Strategic bombing (Haun, Jackson 2016) -Tactical bombing - air support (Press 2001)
•3) Technology and RMA - hot air or the key variable? - Precision guided munition, its effects (Mearsheimer 1983) -Information-based warfare (Krepinevitch 1994), UAV (Horowitz 2016)
•4) Force employment - an alternative to technological theories? -The theory (Biddle 2004) -Operation Goodwood (Biddle 2004) -Desert Storm (Biddle 1996) 5) Building Biddle´s model (excel)
Block II: Generating military might - broader socio-political factors
•6) Dictatorial regimes - ultimate threat or paper tigers? (Talmadge 2015) -Personalist regimes
•7) Helping now, hurting in the long run; effects of military assistance on the military power of small powers (Talmadge 2015) -South Vietnam -Iraq Group Assignment
•8) Political and Societal sources of battlefield performance -Economic development (Beckley 2010) -Political/Social/Class cohesion 8) Analyzing military expenditures within NATO •9) THA presentations/discussion •10) Revising Biddle's model •11) Hybrid and asymmetric warfare - what is so novel? -Lebanon 2006 Case (Biddle, Friedman2008) -Afghanistan 2002-? (Biddle 2005)
Assesing Russo-Ukrainian war 9) Russian regime and Russian society vs. Ukrainian regime and Ukrainian Society 10) Russian Army vs. Ukrainian Army 11) Russian invasion, alternative scenarios, and future developments