Location: Clough Undergraduate Learning Center (CULC) 280
This course provides students with a background in large-scale military decision making and the history and transformation of the American military by analyzing events in the United States between 1860 and 1865 and projecting forward the revolutionary changes that helped define armed conflict for the next 100 years. We will study both belligerents over the duration of the struggle. Discussion of military organization, technology, and transformation will appear in the context of our study of the land and maritime campaigns and battles. The course will begin with a brief examination of the conditions that existed at the beginning of the most definitive conflict of the American experience, then shift into a comprehensive study of the changes that transpired during the war, to include:
Strategy
- National level strategies and their evolutions over the course of the war
- Theater level strategies and their evolution
- Naval and maritime strategies and their evolution
- The mobilization of two economies to fight the first large scale war of the industrial era
- Command structures
- Large scale tactical maneuvers
- Field fortifications/siege
- Brown-water navy
- Combined operations
- Asymmetric warfare
- Critical infrastructure attacks
- Command and control
Logistics
- Transportation
- Railroad
- Road
- Water
- Communications
- Quartermaster
- Commissary
- Ordnance
- Large-scale logistics bases
Industrial era weapons
- Procurement
- Production
- Distribution
- Training and sustaining
- Ordnance
- Engineers
- Medical
- Signal
- Aeronautics
- Topographical services
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