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Call Number 01366 Ohio University, Spring 2008 Professor John Brobst Description CH 603 represents the third and final installment in the CHI seminar sequence. It focuses on the application of history and historical method to policy and decision-making. This year’s offering will concentrate on history and strategy—on the application of history to problems of defense and national security. The first half of the course emphasizes theory and broad, methodological considerations; the second half works through a series of case studies reflecting ongoing debates over defense and national security. Required Books (available at Little Professor Bookstore) Gaddis, John Lewis. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Garver, John. China and Iran: Ancient Partners in a Post-Imperial World. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. Kagan, Frederick. Finding the Target: The Transformation of American Military Policy. New York: Encounter Books, 2007. Luttwak, Edward. Strategy: The Logic of War and Peace, revised and enlarged edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Mearsheimer, John. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York: Norton, 2001. Murray, Williamson and Richard Hart Sinnreich (editors). The Past as Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Nagl, John. Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Neustadt, Richard and Earnest May. Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. Sumida, Jon Tetsuro. Inventing Grand Strategy and Teaching Command: The Classic Works of Alfred Thayer Mahan Reconsidered. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Trachtenberg, Marc. History and Strategy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. Wohlstetter, Roberta. Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1962. N. B. Additional readings will be available on Blackboard as indicated in the schedule below. Grades and Class Policies CH 603 is a graduate seminar built on discussion. It demands active participation on the part of each student. Each student is consequently expected to come to seminar prepared to discuss, debate, and criticize the assigned materials. Moreover, each student’s final grade will reflect his or her participation, including the weekly preparation of a 500-word (2-page) reaction paper over assigned readings. Each student must also complete two essays of approximately 2,500 to 3,000 words each (10 pages typed in double-spaced 12-point Times New Roman) based on assigned reading and discussions in seminar. Specific guidelines for these essays will be provided under separate cover. The grading breakdown is as follows: Participation (including weekly reaction papers) 50% of course grade Plagiarism is theft. Neither it nor any form of academic misconduct will be tolerated. Violations will incur severe penalties, including an “F” for the course, expulsion from CHI, and possibly expulsion from the university as well. The instructor strongly discourages “PR” grades, and reserves the right to decide at his discretion whether one is warranted. Any “PR” must be cleared by the first day of the following quarter (or by the last day of the Spring Quarter in the case of a “PR” taken in the Winter Quarter). Late completion will incur a penalty of one-half a letter against the course grade (for example, an A- becomes a B+, and so forth) per quarter. Attendance is mandatory and essential to good performance in the course. The instructor reserves the right to penalize any student against his or her course grade for repeated instances of absence or late arrival in class, as well as any instance of late work. Late papers will normally incur a penalty of one full letter grade for each day late, however the instructor reserves the right either to permit or refuse late work at his discretion. Courtesy is expected. Please be on time. Reading in class is prohibited. Accessing email or the internet in class is prohibited. The use of cell phones in class, whether for voice or text messaging, is prohibited. Please turn your cell phone off before class begins. The instructor reserves the right to penalize any student against his or her course grade for violations. Schedule 4/2: Introduction to the Course 4/9: Applied History 4/16: Levels of Analysis 4/23: The Use and Abuse of IR Theory 4/30: Great Books, Great Minds, Great Strategy Wednesday, 5/7: No Class – Brobst in England 5/14: Case Study: Actionable Intelligence Wednesday, 5/14: Essay 1 Due 5/21: Case Study: Counterinsurgency 5/28: Case Study: The Great Game 6/4: Case Study: The Revolution in Military Affairs Friday, 6/13: Essay 2 Due
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