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Course Schedule
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Week 1
17 August
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Introduction
Unit One: What is War? Early Writings on War
Herb Strachen The Idea of War Cambridge Companion pp. 7-15
Sunzi and The Art of War from Masters of Chinese Political Thought pp. 318-332
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Week 2
24 August
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The Iliad trans. Fagels, from Books VI, XVI, XIX, XXII, XXIV
Virgil's Aeneid trans Fitzgerald, Book II
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Week 3
31 August
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Solomon, Zahava, Laror, Nathanial, and McFarlane, Alexander. "Acute Posttraumatic Reactions in Soldiers and Civilians."
Sophocles Ajax trans Woodruff
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Week 4
7 September
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Labor Day
Unit Two: What are we fighting for? Feudal Warfare
Daidoji Yuzan. The Code of the Samurai. trans. Thomas Cleary
Tales of the Heiki trans. Helen Craig McCullough. pp 152-158, 312-313, 376-380
Richard W.Kaeuper Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europe pp 161-176
John Keegan The Face of Battle: Agincourt
Jehan de Wavrin A French Knight's Account of Agincourt from Keegan's The Book of War pp 52-60
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Week 5
14 September
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Shakespeare Henry V Acts III and IV
Donald Logan History of the Chuch in the Middle Ages: The First Crusade pp. 109-119
The Book of Reflections trans. Francesco Gabrieli pp 3-17, 30-35,139-147
Usamah ibn Munqidh An Arab Syrian Gentleman. from The Book of War ed. John Keegan pp 41-46
The Song of Roland trans Frederick Goldin stanzas 150-180
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Week 6
21 September
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Gucharan Das The Difficulty of Being Good: Summary of the Mahabharata
The Bhagavad-Gita trans. Tony Barnstone Literatures of Asia. pp 65-73
Unit Three:Weapon technology, battle and outcomes: The Napoleonic and Colonial Eras
Patrick O'Brian The Ionian Mission
Ships Maneuvers in Patrick O’Brian’s The Ionian Mission. C F Keller editor
John Keegan The Face of Battle: Waterloo
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Week 7
28 September
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Bernard Cornwell Sharpe's Rifles and Sharpe's Company
Louis Masur The Real War Will Never Get in the Books: Cooke, Douglas, De Forest, Alcott and Whitman
Rudyard Kipling War Stories and Poems
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Week 8
5 October
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MIDTERM EXAM
Unit Four: What is a just war? World Wars I and II
Eric Marie Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front
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Fall Break Friday |
Week 9
12 October |
John Keegan The Face of Battle: The Somme
Penguin Book of First World War Stories: Graves "Christmas Truce", Spark "The First Year of My Life"
S.L.A. Marshall Night Drop
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Week 10
19 October
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Alex Kershaw The Longest Winter
Bill Mauldin Up Front
Alexander Moseley "Just War Theory"
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Week 11
26 October
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The Russian Version of the Second World War Graham Lyons editor
Haruki Taya Cook Japan at War: Oral Histories
The making of the Atomic bomb article
Unit Five: Cold and hot wars and the Theory of Deterrence: Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War
"Korean War Reporting" from The Greenwood Library David A Copeland editor
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Week 12
2 November |
Michael Herr Dispatches
Keith Payne "Cold War Deterrence Theory and Practice"
Lebow and Stein "Rational Deterrence Theory: I Think Therefore I Deter"
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Week 13
9 November
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Thomas Powers Intelligence Wars:A Riddle inside an Enigma
Robert Wallace Spycraft
John Le Carre Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Unit Six: Who becomes a soldier? What is the Future of War?
Dexter Filkins The Forever War
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Week 14
16 November
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Kristen Holmstedt Band of Sisters
Brian Turner Here Bullet
Lucius Shepherd R&R
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Week 15
23 November
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David Weber On Basilisk Station
David Drake Lt Leary Comanding
THANKSGIVING
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Week 16
30 November
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David Weber On Basilisk Station
David Drake Lt Leary Comanding
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