This course engages with the development of military theory as an intersection of military and intellectual history. As a military history course, it addresses the history of the practice of warfare. As an intellectual history course, it explores the relationship between ideas and human behavior. The fusion of these two approaches engages with influential theorists and practitioners (including Clausewitz, Corbett, Liddell Hart, Brodie, and others) to examine how the intellectual currents of their respective eras intersected with their ideas on the utility of armed force, and how subsequent eras reinterpreted theories and ideas to align with their own views of war.
