MS 100 Introduction to Military Studies (3)
A study of antecedents of the American Military institution; from the Colonial period, with an emphasis upon the development of American Military traditions to the end of the 19th century. Special attention will be focused upon the development and use of militia.

MS 130 Warfare: A Soldier’s View (3)
A view of warfare from the bottom up. Investigates armed conflict from the common soldiers perspective. Other nation’s armed forces may be examined, however, emphasis is on the American fighting man from the colonial period to the present. Uses diaries, journals, letters, and autobiographies.

MS 140 The Role of the Military (3)
An examination of the legacy of the 19th century on early 20th century military thinking in America, the War with Spain, Elihu Root, and creation of the Army General Staff, the wars of the 20th century and the changing environment. Modern relations between the military and society will be extensively explored, with a focus upon the use of the military as an element of international influence available to the national authority.

MS 150 Heritage of the U.S. Armed Forces (1-3)
A series of studies designed to present the evolution and development of each of the United States armed forces including the Coast Guard from their origins to the present. Examines the roles and missions of each service as well as their customs and traditions. May be taken more than once.

MS 200 Technology and War (3)
An examination of technology’s impact on military forces and national security. Provides background information and analysis on technology in war through the ages. Discusses the development of weapons, weapons platforms, logistics, transportation, and communications.

MS 220 Battle Analysis (1-3)
A series of studies which examine the conduct of war through an analysis of selected battles and campaigns throughout history. Discusses the tactic and operations of armed forces on land, sea, and air. May be taken more than once.

MS 300 Warfare in the Imagination (3)
Uses fiction to gain an appreciation of the conduct of war and its impact on mankind. Surveys, novels, short stories, poetry and prose writings to show war and people at war.

MS 305 Warfare and the Cinema (3)
Examination of the way war is viewed by Hollywood. Surveys war movies and television series throughout the twentieth century and discusses their impact on society.

MS 310 The American Experience at War (3)
A study of the American Experience at War using actual campaigns from various historical periods, commencing with the Colonial War through the Gulf War.

MS 320 National Security Policy (3)
This course examines current National Security Policy and the process that leads to the development of the policy, to include the role of the various elements of national government in policy development.

MS 330 International Conflict (3)
Course examines contemporary international conflict. The issues addressed include international relations, economic interdependence and theories regarding conflict.

MS 340 America’s First Battles (3)
From the American Revolution to Vietnam, the United States military has a mixed record of fighting the first battles of its major wars. Even though the wars are fought, usually to a successful conclusion, the outcomes of many, if not most first battles, are defeats or at best struggles so costly in lives that they might as well be called defeats. This course gives an overview of the cyclical nature of United States military history by examining the transition from war to post-war, to peace, to pre-war, and back to war. This examination will also focus on the military establishment within American society and will identify its role in peacetime and internal and external forces that affect preparedness for war.

MS 350 Military Strategy (3)
By definition military strategy is “the art and science of employing the armed forces of a nation to secure the objectives of a national policy by the application of forces, or the threat of forces.” This course begins with an introduction to military and national security and its evolution. The process followed to develop national strategy by the United States government and its military forces are examined. The course then investigates United States military strategy from the Revolutionary War to today. Lastly, the course will explore the strategic requirements for the nation as it enters the twenty-first century.

MS 360 Independent Study (1-3)
A research project of extensive reading in aspects of the disciplines or engagement in a field experience. May be carried on in absentia. Students will be required to prepare and gain approval of both the department chair (Criminal Justice) and the supervising professor of a comprehensive learning contract. Independent Study may be taken for one, two or three credit hours. Students must have a 3.0 GPA and complete a project prospective that is approved by the supervising professor prior to enrollment. Prerequisite: Consent of the Department Chair.

MS 380 Civil-Military Relations (3)
A study of the development of civilian and military relations in the United States. Areas that will be explored include the laws governing the establishment and utilization of military, politics, citizen man-power, peacetime missions, officer procurement and the military’s impact on society and the nation’s economy.

MS 390 Special Topics in Military & Strategic Studies (1, 2, or 3)
Topics will vary from semester to semester and will be announced in advance. May be taken for more than one semester for variable credit.

MS 400 Strategic Leadership (3)
Analysis and assessment of skills, knowledge, attributes, and competencies of senior and strategic leaders. Examines the characteristics, values, and responsibilities of military and civilian professionals. Provides an appreciation of leadership characteristics of historical figures.

MS 410 Military Campaign & Battle Analysis (3)
An analysis of selected military campaigns and major battles. Each event will be examined in detail from its inception to conclusion. Topics include command and control, communications, operational art, tactics, technology, manpower, and logistics. Students will apply their understanding of the art and science of war to re-fighting the campaigns and battles they have studied through the assignment of Battle Staff Analysis. This course may be taken more than once.

MS 430 Ethic in Warfare (3)
A study of ethic in war. Examines ethical questions which have faced the military in war. Analyzes and discusses “just war” theories.

MS 440 Armed Forces and Military Law (3)
Examines United States military law within the context of international laws of war. Studies the development of concepts and judicial theories and their application to the military. Uses case studies to examine military law.

MS 450 Military Intelligence (3)
A comprehensive analysis of military intelligence operations from the strategic to the tactical level. Examines the use of intelligence by the military and evaluates its effectiveness in wars.

MS 470 Insurgency and Guerilla War (3)
An overview of insurgency and guerrilla warfare throughout history. Emphasis is on these movements in modern history. Uses case studies to analyze the nature of these types of warfare.

MS 460 Logistics in War (3)
A study of logistics in warfare through the ages. Examines the various elements which are incorporated into logistics and how they interact. An examination of the role logistics plays in each level of war and how logistics influences strategy, operational, and tactical planning and execution.

MS 480 Military Operations Other Than War (3)
Explores the theory and doctrine of Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW). Develops an understanding of the principles, planning, and execution of these operations by U.S. forces and the military of other nations. Examines the cooperation between the military and non-military government and non-government organizations. Uses case studies.

MS 490 Special Topics in Military & Strategic Studies (1, 2, or 3)
Topics will vary from semester to semester and will be announced in advance. May be taken for more than one semester for variable credit.

GRADUATE COURSES IN MILITARY & STRATEGIC STUDIES

MS 500 Strategic Leadership (3)
The question posed by this course is “what is the essence of strategic leadership?” How is strategic leadership defined? What makes a strategic leader? Are strategic leaders born or are they self-made? What characteristics does that leadership display? The course attempts to answer these questions and others regarding strategic leadership.

MS 505 Military and Strategic Studies Methods (3)
This an introductory course. Methods and research in the area of Military and Strategic Studies are presented and discussed.

MS 510 The Art & Science of Military Campaign Planning (3)
War and the conduct of war is both an art and a science. Wars are conducted by launching a series of campaigns within which are one or more battles. The course shows the evolut9ion of a campaign plan from a national security strategy and how that strategy translates into the operational level of war which seeks to defeat the enemy by destroying his center of gravity.

MS 515 Military Studies Historiography (3)
An introduction to the literature of Military and Strategic Studies from Sun-Tzu to contemporary military writings. Emphasis is on the modern period and Western Civilization.

MS 520 The Changing Nature of National Security (3)
This course looks at the evolution of United States national security from the nations establishment into the twenty-first century. It answers the quest as to “what is national security and how is it achieved?”

MS 530 Contemporary Military & Strategic Scenarios (3)
With Cold War’s demise, a great number of challenges to world stability have surfaced. The New World Order has not brought peace or stability. This course investigates the challenges that loom in the twenty-first century. Selected scenarios will be presented and students will conduct research and provide tentative strategic and military solutions to the emerging threats to global order.

MS 540 The Military & the evolution of Nation-States (3)
Nation-States have always relied on the military establishment for their existence and perpetuation. War is considered an extension of politics and it is Nation-state leaders who have decided on the issue of peace and war. There is a unique relationship between the state and its military that has evolved over the centuries. This course explores that relationship.

MS 550 Military and National Strategic Planning (3)
This course conducts an in depth analysis of the process by which national strategy evolves and is translated into national military strategy. Emphasis is on the institutions involved in the process and methodology used by the United States, however, other nation’s strategic planning are compared and contrasted.

MS 560 War and Civilization (3)
The course is a study in contradictions. How can a civilized society conduct the most destructive event man participates in. Yet civilizations have waged war against one another. What then is the relationship between the two is the question posed and answered?

MS 565 The Face of Battle (3)
This course examines the impact of warfare on the individual from primitive man to the warrior of the modern age. It attempts to understand the psychology of battle and why individuals are able or unable to face the destructive nature of combat.

MS 570 Terrorism and the Military (3)
Terrorism has always haunted societies. In the twenty-first century terrorism has taken a more deadly turn from isolated acts of a few to a new way of waging war against the established order. This course conducts an analysis of terrorism, both national and international and discusses the rule of the military in combating the threat.

MS 580 Military culture and Society (3)
The military has its own culture, but is also a subculture of the greater society from which it derives its existence. This course examines the military culture and its relationship to society in general in peace and war.

MS 585 Research in Special Topics in Military Studies(3)
This course offers an opportunity for students, with faculty direction, to explore in depth topics of contemporary interest that are not generally covered in the standard courses.

MS 630 Revolution in Military Affairs (3)
With the Cold War’s end there has been what military theorist call a revolution in military affairs. To a large measure technology has driven past revolutions but there have been other such influences not necessarily technology based. This course investigates revolutions in military affairs thru the ages and discusses the latest revolution in military affairs.

MS 640 Mobilization and Societies at War (3)
The American Revolution marked a change in warfare which has continued to evolve. No longer did nation-states rely on a small armies of professional soldiers, but rather their own citizenry. With increasing technology, mobilization of the nation became more sophisticated and its impact on society significant. This course traces mobilization from the Revolution of the Gulf war and how mobilization will impact on society in the twenty-first century.

MS 650 Intelligence Gathering and Dissemination in the Information Age (3)
Today technology has revolutionized the ability to gather information in fact, so much information has become available and disseminated to those involved in national security from the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the commanders of small units that a problem has been created as to the determination of what data is immediately necessary. This course analyzes intelligence gathering and dissemination from all sources and how and why it is used or neglected.

MS 660 Influence of Technology on Modern Strategy and War (3)
Technology has always had an impact on strategy and war. The advent of the Industrial Revolution had a profound impact on national strategy and the conduct of war. This impact has increased as man has turned his inventive genius to higher forms of killing and destruction in the modern era. This course investigates this influence on war from the Napoleonic age to today.

MS 670 Logistics & Warfare in the Twentieth Century(3)
A review is conducted of logistics in war through the ages from Alexander to the Spanish-American War of 1898. The advent of the internal combustion engine revolutionized logistics at the beginning of the twentieth century. Logistics in each conflict, from World War I to the Gulf War, is researched and analyzed as this aspect of modern warfare becomes increasingly sophisticated.

MS 685 Research in Special Topics in Military Studies (1-3)
This course offers an opportunity for students, with faculty direction, to explore in depth topics of contemporary interest that are not generally covered in the standard courses.