Defense Statecraft (DIP 750)
Spring 2009
Tuesday 3:30pm-6:00pm
Dr. Robert M.
Farley
Office: Patterson
467
Office Hours:
Tuesday, 1-3pm
Office Telephone:
859-257-4668
E-mail: farls0@gmail.com
Introduction
Military
organizations are complex tools of statecraft. This course examines the role
that military force plays in
Format
Student discussion
will take up the bulk of class time. I
expect everyone to attend, have studied the readings, and have a familiarity
with current events. Any major reputable
newspaper will suffice for the latter, although I prefer the New York Times.
Grading
Grading will be
based on class participation (20%), class blog
participation (10%), and three 4-6 page memos (15% each) and one final
examination (25%).
Each student is
required to post at least once to the class blog, defensestatecraft.blogspot.com, in each of five weeks during the course of the semester. The idea of the blog
is to promote serious discussions of the readings and of current events tied to
military statecraft. I will monitor blog postings and
assign a grade based on quantity and quality of participation. Postings should
specifically integrate the material from class readings and extend class
debates.
Each of the three
4-6 page memos must be typed and double-spaced.
Please do not exceed the page limit.
The point of the assignment is to present information in a cogent and
concise manner. The topic is up to you,
but ideally will concern the convergence of a current event or situation with
assigned reading from the class day in question. Memos are due at the beginning of class on
the day of the relevant reading. You
will be expected to turn in one memo during each third of the course. Thus, the last day for turning in your first
memo is February 23, and the first day for turning in your last memo is March
31.
You will be
required to make an oral presentation and defense of one memo during
class. You must indicate to me a
preference for which week to present by the second week of the course, such
that I can stagger presentations. The presentation should last about fifteen
minutes, and will be followed by a fifteen minute question and answer
period. The presentation will make up 50% of your participation grade, or
10% of the total grade.
The memos will be
evaluated on both content and presentation.
Information must be accurate, arguments must be well thought out, and
style must be compelling.
Class Materials
Purchase of the
following books is recommended, but not required.
The rest of the
class readings are either online or will be made available in the computer
room. The latter are designated by
italics.
Week 1 (1/20): Politics
and Military Force
Samuel
Huntington, Soldier and the State.
Week 2 (1/27): Politics and Military Force (II)
Dana Priest, The
Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars 1-50, 127-207, 251-262,
304-328
Week 3 (2/3): Conventional
Ground Combat and Force Quality
Stephen Biddle, Military Power: Explaining Victory and
Defeat in Modern
Kenneth Pollack, Arabs at War: Military
Effectiveness, 1948-1991 (
Week 4 (2/10): Low
Intensity Warfare
Andrew F. Krepinevich, The Army and
Stephen
Biddle and Jeffrey A. Friedman, The 2006 Lebanon
Campaign and the Future of Warfare
Andrew
Bacevich, The Petraeus Doctrine
Week 5 (2/23; this is a Monday
night session): Low Intensity Warfare (II)
Final week
to turn in first memo assignment.
FM 3-24: Counterinsurgency, December 2006; Chapters 1-8
(186 pages)
Week 6 (2/24): Naval
Warfare / Power Projection
Wayne Hughes, Fleet Tactics and Coastal Combat, 2nd edition
(Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1999), pp. 1-44, 145-168, 266-309
US Naval Strategy in the
1990s, Chapter 3 “From the Sea”, Chapter 5 “Forward… From the
Sea”.
Hoffman, Frank, The Fleet We Need, Armed Forces Journal, August 2006
Week 7 (3/3): Air
Power
Anthony
Cordesman, America’s Self-Destroying Air Power
Robert Pape, Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War.
Charles Dunlap,
Shortchanging the Joint Fight
Colin Gray,
Understanding Airpower
Week 8 (3/10): Nuclear
Theory
Lynn
Eden, Whole World on Fire.
Chris Quillen, “Posse Comitatus and
Nuclear Terrorism,” Parameters, v.32 no. 1 (Spring 2002), 60-74.
Week 9 (3/24): Chemical
and Biological Weapons
Richard Price, Genealogy of the
Chemical Weapons Taboo
Albert Mauroni, New Threat of Unconventional Warfare
Week 10 (3/31):
The Military Services (this is a Monday 6:30pm meeting)
Final
week to turn in second memo assignment.
Carl H. Builder, The
Masks of War (
1989)
Week 11 (4/7): Jointness and Goldwater-Nichols
Clark Murdoch et al, Beyond Goldwater-Nichols:
Defense Reform for a New Strategic Era. Center for Strategic and International
Studies, 2005: Phase
1 and Phase
2
Christopher M. Schnaubelt, After the Fight: Interagency Operations,
Parameters, Winter 2005/2006
Week 12 (4/14):
Strategic Planning Process
Quadrennial Defense Review Report, 2006
Michael C. Desch, "Planning War in Peacetime," Joint Forces
Quarterly (Spring 2002), pp. 94-104.
Week 13 (4/21):
Defense Budget and Procurement
US
Congressional Budget Office: Long Term Implications of Future Defense Programs
Lawrence
Korb et al, Building a Military for the 21st
Century: New Realities, New Priorities
Week 14 (4/28):
Transformation / RMA
Final
week to turn in third memo assignment.
Andrew F. Krepinevich,
"Cavalry to Computer: The Pattern of Military
Revolutions," The
National Interest, No. 37 (Fall 1994), pp. 30-43.
Colin S. Gray, “How has War
changed since the end of the Cold War?” Parameters, Spring 2005.