History of Art of War From The Ancient World to Net Centric Warfare
Course Teachers
Dr. James Corum and Dr. Eric Sibul
Some Course texts;
Richard A. Preston , Sydney F. Wise and Herman O. Werner, Men in Arms: a History of
Warfare and its Interrelationships with Western Society (New York: Frederick Praeger,
1956).
Emily O. Goldman, ed., Information and Revolutions in Military Affairs (London:
Routledge, 2005).
There are many other readings—but these will be posted as e copies online in the course
folder. Some readings we will obtain several copies and have them available as reserve
shelf reading.
We have multiple copies of Makers of Modern Strategy available on Reserve in the Tartu
University Library
Lecture One – Introduction
Preston, Wise, & Werner. Men in Arms.: 1- 9
Lecture Two – Classical Warfare in the Western World
Preston, Wise, & Werner. Men in Arms.: 17 – 49
Lecture Three – Classical Warfare in Asia the Eastern Way of War
Christopher D. Bellamy, “Swift Flight of the Parthian: Great Captains of Asia,” Military
Review. (July 1987): 31 – 39
Karl W. Eikenberry, “Sun Bin and his Art of War,” Military Review. (March 1991): 52 –
57
Sun Tzu (Samuel B. Griffith trans.) The Art of War. (London: Oxford University Press.
1963): 63 – 71, “Estimates.”
Heidi Holz, “Complementary Keys in Naval Victory,” Naval History (Aug 2009): 50-55
Lecture Four – Feudal Warfare to the Beginnings Modern Warfare
Preston, Wise, & Werner. Men in Arms.: 78 – 128
Roberts, “The Military Revolution 1560-1660” Oxford Lecture. e copy
Lecture Five – Limited Warfare in the 18th Century to Nations in Arms and Napoleon
Preston, Wise, & Werner. Men in Arms.: 129 – 195
Lecture Six – The 19th Nineteenth Century Limited War and the rise of the Information
Age
Goldman (ed) Information and Revolutions in Military Affairs. 26 - 77
Preston, Wise, & Werner. Men in Arms.: 196 – 233
Lecture Seven – Total War
Preston, Wise, & Werner. Men in Arms.:234 – 341
Lecture Eight—World War II on the Eastern Front and in the Baltic Area
Selected papers from the Estonian National Defence Academy World War II Conference,
January 2012. e copies
Lecture Nine – Modern Irregular Warfare
David Galula. Rand Study –Pacification in Algeria 1956-1958, Rand Study, 1963 pp. 5211, 241-250. e copy
John Shy and Thomas Collier, “Revolutionary War,” Peter Paret (ed.) Makers of Modern
Strategy: from Machiavlelli to the Nuclear Age. (Princeton NJ: Princeton University
Press. 1986): 815 – 862
Lecture Ten: The Cold War
Lawrence Freedman, The First Two Generations of Nuclear Strategists,” Makers of
Modern Strategy pp. 735- 778
Michael Carver, conventional Warfare in the Nuclear Age, 779-814” in Makers of
Modern Strategy.
Lecture Eleven– Military Thought in the late 20th Century and Beyond
Nicholas Lemann, “Dreaming About War: Someone in the Pentagon is staging a defense
revolution-and it's not the generals,” The New Yorker. (16 July 2001): 32
Brian Holden Reid, “J.F.C. Fuller and B.H. Liddell Hart: A Comparison,” Military
Review. (May 1990): 64 – 73
Franklin C Spinney, “Genghis John,” United States Naval Institute. Proceedings (July
1997): pp. 42 – 48
Scott Stephenson; “The Revolution in Military Affairs: 12 Observations on an Out of
Fashion Idea,” Military Review (May – June 2010): 38 – 46
John A. Warden III, “Air Theory for the Twenty-first Century,” Air and Space Power
Journal (September 1995): 1 - 16
Lecture Twelve – The Russian and Chinese Approaches to information warfare
Timothy L. Thomas, “China’s Long Range Electronic Reconnaissance,” Military Review
(November – December 2008): 47 - 54
William Ashmore, “Impact of Alleged Russian Cyber Attacks .” Baltic Security and
Defence Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 2009, pp. 4-40. – e copy.
Russian Invasion of Georgia: Russian Cyberwar on Georgia (US Naval War College
November 2008) e copy
Lecture Thirteen – The US Approach to Information Warfare
Arthur K. Cebrowski, “Net – Centric Warfare,” Military Technology. (May 2003): 16 –
22
Richard Crowell. War in the Information Age: A Primer for
Cyberspace Operations in 21st Century Warfare (US Naval War College)
Benoit Gagnan, “Are we headed for a Cyber 9-11?” Center for United States Studies,’
University of Quebec, Occasional Paper 2004. e copy
John Arquilla, “Aspect of Netwar and the Conflict with al Qaeda, (Monterrey CA:
Information Operations Center, 2009)
Lecture Fourteen –Summary and Review of current Debates
‘Ari Kober, “The Israeli Defense Forces in the Second Lebanon War. Why the Poor
performance?” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1, Feb 2008. pp. 3-40
T.X. Hammes, Insurgency: Modern Warfare Evolves, NDU 2005 paper, e copy
George Hoffman, Complex Irregular Warfare, 2006. e copy
Lecture 15: Final Exam