This seminar aims to examine the theory and practice of grand strategy. It does so in historical, theoretical, and contemporary practice context and from a variety of analytical perspectives. In this course, we approach grand strategy as a broad problem-solving tool relevant to a variety of domains that emphasizes the calculated relationship between means and large ends. We evaluate the success and failure of strategists and strategies over some two and a half millennia to extract a set of principles for the making of grand strategy that will be useful in any future leadership role in which we may be called upon to connect desired ends with available means.
