Week 1
January

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
The Iliad trans. Fagels, from Books VI, XVI, XIX, XXII, XXIV

Week 2
January

The Iliad
Virgil's Aeneid trans Fitzgerald, Book II
Solomon, Zahava, Laror, Nathanial, and McFarlane, Alexander. "Acute Posttraumatic Reactions in Soldiers and Civilians."
Sophocles Ajax trans Woodruff

Week 3
January

Martin Luther King Day Holiday

Sophocles Ajax

Week 4
January

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
Shakespeare Henry V Acts III and IV

Week 5
February

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
Gucharan Das The Difficulty of Being Good: Summary of the Mahabharata
The Bhagavad-Gita trans. Tony Barnstone Literatures of Asia. pp 65-73

Week 6
February

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
Bernard Cornwell Sharpe's Rifles and Sharpe's Company

Week 7
February

MIDTERM EXAM

Louis Masur The Real War Will Never Get in the Books: Cooke, Douglas, De Forest, Alcott and Whitman
Rudyard Kipling War Stories and Poems

Week 8
February

Unit Four: What is a just war? World Wars I and II
Eric Marie Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front
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"

Week 9
February

S.L.A. Marshall Night Drop
Alex Kershaw The Longest Winter
Bill Mauldin Up Front

March

Spring Break

Week 10
March

Alexander Moseley "Just War Theory"
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

Week 11
March

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
Michael Herr Dispatches

Week 12
March

Michael Herr Dispatches
Keith Payne "Cold War Deterrence Theory and Practice"
Lebow and Stein "Rational Deterrence Theory: I Think Therefore I Deter"

Spring Holiday

Week 13
April

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

Week 14
April

Kristen Holmstedt Band of Sisters
Brian Turner Here Bullet
Lucius Shepherd R&R

Week 15
April