Military Intelligence and Modern Warfare

IWP 648
Four credits

This course assesses the role and importance of military intelligence in modern warfare and is designed to familiarize the student with key sources, components, and methods of modern military intelligence, including U.S. and foreign approaches. The course provides a summary of the historical development of military intelligence from antiquity to the present, using World War II, Cold War, and recent case studies to illustrate the importance, role, effectiveness, successes, and errors of military intelligence. The course concludes with an assessment of the evolving role of military intelligence in the 21^stCentury. No prior knowledge of military history of intelligence is required.

Semester Available

Spring Semester

Principal Professor

David L. Thomas

Department of Defense {read more}

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FEATURED FACULTY

Thomas P. Melady

Senior Diplomat in Residence; Former Ambassador to Burundi, Uganda, and the Vatican

Public Diplomacy and Political Warfare

The purpose of this course is to study the theories and practices of public diplomacy and political warfare as instruments of statecraft, with an emphasis on psychological strategy. Using specific historical and current examples, as well as primary-source materials, the course stresses the development of the national security professional's practical applications of public diplomacy and political warfare as complementary, everyday tools in real-world policymaking.

Principal Professor

J. Michael Waller