Defense Statecraft (DIP 750)
Spring 2007
Thursday 1:00pm-3:30pm
Dr. Robert M. Farley
Office: Patterson 467
Office Hours: Wednesday, 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 8, and the first day
for turning in your last memo is March 29.
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 available
online or can be found in Patterson 469.
Week 1 (1/11): Introduction
Week
2 (1/18): Politics and Military Force
Samuel Huntington, Soldier and the State.
Carl Von Clausewitz, On War: Indexed
Edition. Princeton:
Week 3 (1/25): Politics and Military Force (II)
P.W. Singer, Corporate Warriors. (
Dana Priest, The
Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars 1-50, 127-207, 251-262,
304-328
Week 4 (2/1): 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 5 (2/8): Low Intensity Warfare
Final week to turn in first
memo assignment.
John Nagl, Counterinsurgency
Lessons from Malaya and
Andrew F. Krepinevich, The Army and
Stephen Biddle, Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare:
Implications for Army
George Packer,
“Knowing the Enemy,” The New Yorker, December 18, 2006
Week 6 (2/15): Low Intensity Warfare (II)
FM
3-24: Counterinsurgency, December 2006; Chapters 1-8 (186 pages)
Week 7 (2/22): 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 8 (3/1): Air Power
Robert Pape, Bombing to Win: Air Power
and Coercion in War.
Week 9 (3/8): 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 10 (3/22): Organizations and Learning
Final week to turn in second
memo assignment.
Stephen Rosen, Winning the Next War: Innovation and
the Modern Military,
Deborah Avant and James Lebovic,
Week 11 (3/29): The Military Services
Carl H. Builder, The Masks of
War (
1989)
Allan R. Millett, "Why
the Army and the Marine Corps Should Be Friends,"
Parameters (Winter 1994-95), pp. 30-40.
Week 12 (4/5): Inter-service Rivalry / Jointness
Frank Hoffman, "Goldwater-Nichols After
a Decade," in Willamson Murray, ed., The Emerging
Strategic Environment (Praeger, 1999), pp. 156-182.
Sharon Weiner, "The Politics of Resource Allocation in the
Post-Cold War
Pentagon," Security Studies, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Summer 1996), pp.
125-42.
Christopher
M. Schnaubelt, After the Fight: Interagency
Operations, Parameters, Winter 2005/2006
Week 13 (4/12): Strategic Planning Process
Hughes, 244-265.
Quadrennial
Defense Review Report, 2006
Michael
C. Desch, "Planning War in Peacetime,"
Joint Forces Quarterly (Spring2002), pp. 94-104.
Week 14 (4/19): Defense Budget and Procurement
Cindy Williams, "Introduction," in Cindy
Williams, ed., Holding the Line:
Defense Alternatives for the Early 21st Century (
U.S. Congressional
Budget Office, The Long-Term Implications of Current
Defense Plans
(September 2005)
Stephen P. Rosen, "Systems Analysis and the Quest
for Rational Defense," Public Interest (Summer 1984), pp. 3-17. Builder,
pp. 95-114.
Eugene
Gholz and Harvey M. Sapolsky,
"Restructuring the U.S. Defense
Industry,"
International Security, Vol. 24, No. 3 (Winter 1999-2000), pp. 5-51.
Week 15 (4/26): 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.
Elizabeth
Stanley-Mitchell, "Technology's Double-Edged Sword: The Case of
U.S.
Army Battlefield Digitization," Defense Analysis, Vol. 17, No. 3 (December
Peter
J. Dombrowski, Eugene Gholz,
and Andrew L. Ross, "Selling Military
Transformation:
The Defense Industry and Innovation," Orbis,
Vol. 46, No. 3
Williamson
Murray, Military Transformation and Legacy Forces, Joint Forces Quarterly,
Spring 2002
Colin S.
Gray, “How has War changed since the end of the Cold War?” Parameters, Spring 2005.