Military courses Massachusetts

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...The purpose of this course is to acquaint the student with the missions, capabilities, and costs of the largely non-nuclear forces that make up the bulk of the U.S. military establishment. The course will also introduce the student to basic techniques for the assessment of relative military...

...The purpose of this course is to acquaint the student with the missions, capabilities, and costs of the largely non-nuclear forces that make up the bulk of the U.S. military establishment. The course will also introduce the student to basic techniques for the assessment of relative military...

...This seminar has three purposes. One, it inquires into the causes of military innovation by examining a number of the most outstanding historical cases. Two, it views military innovations through the lens of organization theory to develop generalizations about the innovation process within...

...This course centers on mechanisms of civilian control of the military. Relying on the influential texts of Lasswell, Huntington, and Finer, the first classes clarify the basic tensions between the military and civilians. A wide-ranging series of case studies follows. These cases are chosen...

...This course examines selected past, current, and future sea, air, space, and land battlefields and looks at the interaction in each of these warfare areas between existing military doctrine and weapons, sensors, communications, and information processing technologies. It also explores...

...This course examines systematically, and comparatively, great and middle power military interventions, and candidate military interventions, into civil wars from the 1990s to the present. These civil wars did not easily fit into the traditional category of vital interest. These interventions... Learn about: International Politics...

...We will pay close attention to how comparative historical case studies are conducted. Two papers based on the class reading will be required... Learn about: Quality Training...

...For advanced graduate students, preferably those selecting a dissertation topic. Lectures: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session Participants are required...

...This course focuses on the institutional relationships that affect the raising, maintenance and use of military forces in the United States...

...This course is for students who want to know how the dollars we spend on national security relate to military forces, systems, and policy choices...

...but they will not regurgitate the reading assignment. Lectures will cover theoretical and analytical issues as well as the substantive questions at...

...and Client Japan. Relations between Japan and the Great Powers Past and Present: China, Russia, Great Britain, and the United States. Japan and Old... Learn about: Foreign Policy...

...students choose an artifact from the history of computing or from the contemporary world of computing and write an essay about the social meaning of this artifact... Learn about: Artificial Intelligence...

...The prerequisites for this course are 6.002 Circuits and Electronics and 6.013 Electromagnetics and Applications or permission of the instructor... Learn about: Alternative Energy...

...U.S. military operations continue to respond to international threats, yet need to rely on continental United States (CONUS) basing. The current system... Learn about: Team Training...

...Cassius Dio. Roman History. Translated by Earnest Cary (1914-27). Plutarch. Crassus, Cato the Younger, and Brutus. Translated by Bernadotte Perrin (1918-19)... Learn about: Communication Training...

...to the class experience during the term. Needless to say, if you do not attend a class it is impossible for you to contribute to it. In preparation for discussion... Learn about: Legal History, American History, IT Law...