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Comparative Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States17.484
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2004English
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This course will conduct a comparative study of the grand strategies of the great powers (Britain, France, Germany and Russia) competing for mastery of Europe from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Grand strategy is the collection of political and military means and ends with which a state attempts to achieve security. We will examine strategic developments in the years preceding World Wars I and II, and how those developments played themselves out in these wars.

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