This course explores data management and its enabling technologies as key components for improving mission effectiveness through the development of open, enterprise wide, and state-of-the-art data architectures. It examines management issues such as the implementation of the data component of the Enterprise Architecture specified by OMB. In addition, the course covers key data management strategies, including the DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy and the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) Data Reference Model and their enabling information technologies including data warehousing, electronic archiving, data mining, neural networks, and other knowledge discovery methodologies. Case studies allow students to explore data management issues and implementation. While geared for managers, the course provides sufficient insight into the underlying technologies to ensure that students can evaluate the capabilities and limitations of data management options and strategies. (Class Limit 20) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 0800 - 1000, 09/14/2020 - 12/07/2020 (10 Dec 20/1230 – 1430 - Columbus Day MakeUp Date for Elective 1 Period)

Instructor: Prof. Matt Newman

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• Big Data to Decision Electives Course Summary ​ 

• Data and Analytics Visualization Concentration Program Summary

This course examines the role of strategic planning, organizational culture, financial and operational data analysis, performance metrics, performance/budget integration, information sharing, decision-making, program evaluation, impact of technology, and collaboration in developing a culture of performance and accountability. The strategic and persistent effects of these factors on mission performance in the Department of Defense (DoD) operating environment will be assessed and strategies for military and civilian leaders to develop and sustain such a culture will be explored. (Class Limit 20) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 1230 - 1430, 09/14/2020 - 12/07/2020 (11 Dec 20/1230 – 1430 - Columbus Day Make-Up Date for Elective 2 Period) 

Instructor: Prof. David Harvey

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• Elective Program Flyer

• Syllabus and Course Schedule

• Sample Reading - DoD FY 2021 Annual Perf Plan & FY 2019 Annual Perf Report

• Sample Reading - GAO Report on Results-Oriented Cultures

• Sample Reading - Performance Accountability - 5 Building Blocks and 6 Essential Practices

• Sample Reading - Statutory Inspectors General in the Federal Government - A Primer

• Sample Reading - The Concept of Organizational Culture - Why Bother

This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of budget issues related to national security. The overarching goal is for students to develop leadership strategies to help shape their military, intelligence, and international agencies' fiscal environment, goals, and outcomes. The course focuses on topics such as the current budget environment, strategic performance and budget management, budget formulation, enactment, and execution. The course also examines leadership strategies for resource prioritization and decision-making, and managing relationships with executive and legislative branch oversight, command leadership and external organizations. (Class Limit 20) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 0800 - 1000, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Prof. Joseph Wessling

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• Budgeting for National Security Syllabus Fall 2020

• CFO Financial Management for Leaders - Elective Program Flyer

• Sample Reading - CBO Update Economic Outlook JUL 2020

• Sample Reading - CRS - CR Overview

• Sample Reading - CRS R42388 Congressional Budget Process 2016

• Sample Reading - CSIS - Understanding DoD's Defense-wide ZBR

• Sample Reading - DoD Reprogramming Overview

• Sample Reading - FY 2021 Defense Wide Review Final

• Sample Reading - GAO - The Nation's Fiscal Health June 2019

This course provides a comprehensive overview of information assurance and critical information infrastructure protection. Information assurance of information assets and protection of the information component of critical national infrastructures essential to national security are explored. The focus is at the public policy and strategic management level, providing a foundation for analyzing the information security component of information systems and critical infrastructures. Laws, national strategies and public policies, and strengths and weaknesses of various approaches are examined for assuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of critical information assets. Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to analyze laws, national strategies, and public policies; and assess the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches for assuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of those information assets created, stored, processed, and communicated by information systems and critical information infrastructures. (Class Limit 20) (2 Credit Hours) CIC 6017A: MON, 0800 - 1000, 09/14/2020 - 12/07/2020 (10 Dec 20/1230 – 1430 - Columbus Day Make-Up Date for Elective 1 Period)  CIC 6017B: TUE, 0800 - 1000, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Prof. Mark Duke

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• Elective Flyer

This course provides an opportunity for creative problem-solving through innovative research partnerships including hands-on exercises participating in an R&D project support joint stakeholders. Over the span of a 2-elective track, students share their domain expertise to shape real world research while partners share technical expertise in emerging technology solutions in the information/influence space. This course is supported from an OSD Minerva Defense Education Civilian Research (DECUR) partnership award which pairs NDU with the University of Washington's computer science department. Stakeholders include INDOPACOM J39, J9, EUCOM J39, and Joint Staff J39. Activities include developing prototypes, scoping questions, defining methods, choosing software suites, and testing hypotheses with stakeholders while increasing knowledge of influence and emerging technology for the INDOPACOM area of responsibility. Deliverables will emphasize strong communication and critical thinking skills. The fall course centers on increasing knowledge sharing across domains in order to select use cases and design the research executed in the spring. Deliverables include speaking and writing opportunities to share findings across joint force and partners working in Globally Integrated Operations in the Information Environment. This course is unclassified and there are no prerequisites, but students must enroll in both fall and spring sections to complete the project. (Class Limit 20) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 1300 - 1500, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Dr. Gwyneth Sutherlin

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• Inside Innovation Flyer (6044A)

This course provides an opportunity for creative problem-solving through innovative research partnerships including hands-on exercises participating in an R&D project support to joint stakeholders. Over the span of a 2-elective series track, students share their domain expertise to shape realworld research while partners share technical expertise in emerging technology solutions in the information/influence space. “Countering Malign Influence,” in partnership with the Global Engagement Center (GEC) and several J39 components, leverages GEC’s Disinfo Cloud technologies to test operational problems with strategic implications. Activities include developing prototypes, scoping questions, defining analysis/evaluation methods, choosing software suites, and testing hypotheses with stakeholders while increasing knowledge of influence and emerging technology. Deliverables will emphasize strong communication and critical thinking skills, increasing facility to interact in technology-rich decision-making. The fall course will involve increasing knowledge to create a research experiment and execute the beta-test stage. Fall results shape spring testing, analysis, and evaluation in order to deliver actionable results. Deliverables include speaking and writing opportunities to share findings across joint force and partners working in Globally Integrated Operations in the Information Environment. This course is unclassified and there are no prerequisites, but students must enroll in both fall and spring sections to complete the project. (Class Limit 20) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 0830 - 1030, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Dr. Gwyneth Sutherlin

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• Inside Innovation Flyer (6044B)

This is a case-study-based strategy course for every national security professional. Influence is central (but rarely studied) to both warfare and great-power competition. Allows leaders to do more with less with what you already have—to collapse adversaries silently and invisibly, outside traditional instruments of national power. Tools of influence include subversion, deception, sabotage, fifth columns, propaganda, fake news/disinformation, third options, kompromat, glasnost, sisu, szalámitaktika, trust, etc. Case studies include China, Russia, Iran, ISIS, Estonia, Finland, Nigeria, Vietnam, Japan, Brazil, Egypt, India, Philippines, Mongolia, United States, ISIS, communists, Nazis and so much more. Short, thrilling, highly relevant readings/videos. Lively in-seminar exercises and debates. One strategy memo. One five-minute presentation. (Class Limit 20) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 1230 - 1430, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Dr. Howard Gambrill Clark

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•  Fall AY20 Student Feedback on Course

•  Video (YouTube)

•  Select Influence Tradecraft Overview

This course takes a “deep dive’ into historical and current issues associated with nuclear weapons, through the lens of nuclear statecraft. Since the dawn of the nuclear age, decision makers have dealt with the question of what purposes are served by nuclear weapons and how such weapons can (or cannot) be incorporated into national policies and strategies. Through the lens of statecraft – which incorporates the range of diplomatic, military, and other strategies countries use to advance their security objectives – the course employs a case study methodology to look at how decision makers have tried to use nuclear weapons to advance other security objectives; efforts to contain the growth of nuclear stockpiles and to impede arms races; the role of arms control in trying to reduce nuclear dangers; lessons learned from crises such as the Cuban Missile Crisis; issues associated with nuclear deterrence; and collective strategies that have been advanced to address current and historical threats.
(Class Limit 20) (2 Credit hours) MON, 0830 - 1030, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020 (10 Dec 20/1230 – 1430 - Columbus Day Make-Up Date for Elective 1 Period)

Instructor: Dr. Marco Di Capua

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• Course Overview

Many governments today are still preoccupied with ways of how to defeat terrorism. However, as world practices with terrorism are expanding, so are the concerns of dealing with the threat. One such area of increasing concern is work with former terrorists once a peaceful arrangement is achieved. At some point, governments have to tackle the question of how to ensure stable peace. How to reintegrate former militants back into the society? How to ensure peace lasts? How to deradicalize former extremists and their supporters? Is it ethical to pardon terrorists? How to decriminalize those who took part in killing innocent civilians? Finally, how to bring reconciliation to the society torn by the terrorist threat? The course will address these and other questions linked to the issues of societal reconciliation.
(Class Limit 20) (2 Credit hours) TUE, 0830 - 1030, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Dr. Elena Pokalova

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• Course Read-ahead

Over the past decade, developments in the Eastern Mediterranean have reinforced the region’s geopolitical importance. The discovery of significant natural gas reserves around Israel, Cyprus, and Egypt underpin this trend. Cooperation and conflict on gas exploration, extraction, and distribution interplay with geopolitical dynamics, reorienting investment and security alignments. Events in the region are a case study of the fundamental interconnectedness of economic and political interests in the contemporary world. They show how state and non-state actors play a major role in today’s geopolitics. Because of these developments, the region is also witnessing a return of great power rivalry as the United States, Russia, the EU, and China, compete for power and influence. This course aims to engage with these myriad issues using the Eastern Mediterranean as a case study. It will be structured along three core themes: new energy and economic opportunities, new political alignments, and potential areas for conflict. The course will explore new ways of thinking about power and influence in today’s world through: the role of major corporations involved in extractive industries, economic integration, and the political role of energy interdependence. It will ask students to engage with questions concerning the impact of energy on geopolitics, the vector between policy and economic interests, how alliances shift, and the nature of great power competition in the contemporary security environment. (Class Limit 20) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 0830 - 1030, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020 (10 Dec 20/1230 – 1430 - Columbus Day Make-Up Date for Elective 1 Period)

Instructor: Dr. Andrew Novo

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• Course Read-ahead

This course helps students to understand today’s nuclear threats. The course focuses on current issues and challenges but also provides an historic perspective of how the threat has changed since the Cold War. Students will attain a basic understanding of nuclear weapons technologies and the role of the nuclear fuel cycle, how the threat has expanded as both states and terrorist organizations pursue nuclear/radiological materials and capabilities, the threat posed by under-secured nuclear/radiological materials worldwide, and bilateral and global responses to these and related challenges. (Class Limit 20) (2 Credit hours) MON, 1230 – 1430, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020 (11 Dec 20/1230 – 1430 - Columbus Day Make-Up Date for Elective 2 Period)

Instructor: Ms. Regina Galer

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• Course Flyer

What happens when individuals, groups, communities, and states face a clash between the desire for stable rule of law, and the consequences of anarchic, fragmented, and adaptive social arrangements? What conditions contribute to the surge of violent groups on the streets and in politics to confront adversaries? How have increased globalization and advances in technology complicated the environment by strengthening illicit actors with more capable networked capability? In this course, students will examine features of different political environments and groups in social and institutional dimensions within which political violence is a central feature in the interaction. Participants will research the environmental conditions and the organizing principles of entities such as Transnational Criminal Organizations, Drug Trafficking Organizations, terrorist groups, militias, and gangs, and of their interactions between rivals and with the state, in particular in those cases when the use of violent force or coercion surge as core options in systemic political struggles. The course also explores why the allure of certain organizations functions as an alternative for social aggregation for individuals, especially those that display coercion as an internal controlling mechanism. The course emphasizes conceptual and policy-oriented critical thinking with cases from contemporary politics in Latin America and the Caribbean regions. (Class Limit 20) (2 Credit hours) MON, 0830 - 1030, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020 (10 Dec 20/1230 – 1430 - Columbus Day Make-Up Date for Elective 1 Period)

Instructors: Dr. Craig Deare & Dr. Tom Marks

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While much appears new in the recent American encounter with irregular warfare, in fact, the United States was very much an actor in irregular conflicts throughout its past. The United States began with a revolutionary endeavor—a people’s war. In forming a country and in trying to ensure its survival, it experienced a variety of threats and challenges to its existence and to its national identity. As the original Thirteen Colonies evolved into the United States and expanded across the continent and then assumed a greater role in international affairs, conflicts abounded. While some were great struggles, such as the Civil War, there was throughout the elements of irregular war. Some were unique to the American experience, such as the Indian Wars, but many bear a remarkable similarity to the present and while many of the ‘lessons’ of those experiences may have been lost or not received sufficient attention, they shaped much of what we think and do in the world today. This course will examine some of the most salient examples of this environment and its meaning, not only in shaping the American way of war and strategy and its experience and understanding of irregular war, but how that background and experience might inform current and future ideas about what is to be done in dealing with the challenges posed by peer rivals such as China, Russia, and Iran. (Class Limit 20) (2 Credit hours) TUE, 0830 - 1030, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020 

Instructors: Dr. Tom Marks & Dr. Michael Bell

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• Course Read-ahead

This course examines the nexus of terrorism, illicit financial activities, and crime. One cannot fully understand terrorist or insurgent groups without understanding how they finance and resource themselves; this course provides an overview of this crucial phenomena. Moreover, as groups like the Taliban, ISIS, and transnational gangs like MS-13 demonstrate, there’s an increasingly blurred line between what constitutes terrorist or insurgent activity versus what constitutes fully criminal activity; this course will take an in-depth look at this issue. The role of the state will also be closely examined both as victim of terrorism and criminality, but also as a perpetrator, facilitator, and supporter. We will begin the course with the definitions of terrorism, insurgency, and transnational crime as well as a historic overview of these phenomena. The role of the state will then be examined in more detail in its role as perpetrator of terrorism and crime, through an examination of state-sponsored terrorism and criminally captured states. The second part of the course focuses on some of the most common methods of criminality and terrorism finance, such as narcotics and natural resource exploitation. It also looks at more recently recognized sectors that form a nexus of terrorism finance and crime, including human trafficking, wildlife-related crime, and antiquities crime. Three key facilitators of terrorism and criminality will be examined in greater detail: corruption, money laundering, and networks. Finally, the course will examine whether criminal insurgency accurately represents the links between terrorism, crime, and the state, as well as national and international policies for countering these phenomena. (Class Limit 20) (2 Credit hours) MON, 1230 - 1430, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020 (11 Dec 20/1230 – 1430 - Columbus Day Make-Up Date for Elective 2 Period)

Instructor: Col Rebecca Welch, USAF, Ph.D.

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• Course Read-ahead

The Founding Fathers sought to ensure in the Constitution and related documents that the US Military would not be positioned legally to take up the reigns of governance if it were so inclined. Many foreign military establishments in the pre-Revolutionary War period served at the whim of the monarch to police the state and ensure the security of the regime. Laws protecting the citizenry in these countries from such depredations by the military ranged from scant to completely absent. As a result of this, America's early leaders, concerned about a concentration of power in the executive branch or usurpation of governance by the military, placed the enforcement of our laws in the hands of states or select federal departments outside of the military. The role of the military in domestic security was firmly limited by law and placed in the hands of civilian leaders rather than military officers. Despite differing legal authorities however, military and law enforcement agencies having steadily been improving their ties in recent decades to determine how to complement one another in accomplishing mutual interest tasks both here in the United States and overseas. Over time civilian law enforcement agencies would emerge to maintain the rule of law in both states and territories. This course will lay out the legal authorities for military organizations and federal, state and local law enforcement organizations to enforce the rule of law in the United States. At the end of the course, students will be familiar with the following American principles of enforcing law and the historical benchmarks associated with the formation of these principles. (Class Limit 18) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 0800 - 1000, 09/14/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Dr. William Soderberg

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• Course Syllabus

• Course Overview Slides

An increasingly complex, diverse world requires senior leaders to broaden their style to motivate employees and deliver results successfully. This course will explore leadership concepts using case studies, lectures, guest speakers, readings, and hands-on practice. The skills needed for transformational leadership will be examined by studying the latest research on leadership and considering the examples of the successes and failures of male and female leaders from the U.S. and international private sector, the military, and government. Personal values and their relationship to and influence on leadership styles will be covered. Students will have the opportunity to examine their leadership behaviors and to develop and enhance their leadership skills and styles. Students will also be able to interact with current military, government, and business leaders through discussions and readings. The course will examine a range of leadership styles, comparing them to Transformational Leadership. By the end of the course, students should emerge with a broadened exposure to multiple leadership styles, a deep dive into the Transformational Leadership style, and an opportunity to acquire and practice Transformational Leadership skills. (Class Limit 16) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 1230 - 1430, 09/14/2020 - 12/07/2020 (11 Dec 20/1230 – 1430 - Columbus Day Make-Up Date for Elective 2 Period)

Instructor: Ms. Margaret Hanson-Muse & Ms. Cindy Lersten

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• Course Syllabus

• Course Overview Video (.mp4)

This course is normally taught in English with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish, Portuguese and French. The course is designed to provide students with an understanding of some of the major theories regarding the organization of civilian-military relations in the state and society, with particular focus on issues of control and oversight of the military by civilian authorities in a democratic society. Students will study early literature on the topic, beginning with Samuel Huntington's work, explore major aspects of the debate it has generated over the past decades. (1 Credit Hour) TUE, 1300 - 1600, 09/15/2020 – 10/13/2020

Instructor: Asst. Prof. Philip Kaplan, IADC

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• Draft Syllabus 599B

• Draft Syllabus 599D

Across the spectrum of visual media, filmmakers have repeatedly turned the camera lens to issues and stories featuring weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The risks of potential use, the costs of actual employment, and the significant ethical, scientific, and strategic questions posed by WMD – together with the dramatic tension, pathos, and horror conjured up by these weapons – have proven fertile ground for important and influential works of fiction and non-fiction in film and television. WMD has also proven an irresistible “MacGuffin” – an object of great importance that motivates the actions of key characters, but the exact nature of which does not actually matter to the story - to many screenwriters and directors of great (and not-so-great) popcorn flicks and television programs that have left their own indelible impression on public imagination and popular culture. The present Information Age has given both new life and expanded audiences to past works and also provided new tools and platforms for filmmakers to generate, broadcast, and share visual content that features WMD – whether in a starring or supporting role. The broad reach and potential influence of visual media, however, has also led potential adversaries to redouble efforts to manipulate and exploit the information domain, to include with regard to WMD – and to deny, obfuscate, and attack films and footage they do not like. This course will address the threat of WMD (defined as nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons), and efforts to counter this threat, through the viewing, critical assessment, and discussion of dynamic visual media, to include films, documentaries, television programs, advocacy media, and other visual content. Its purpose is to address the role visual media plays in shaping opinion and informing action, and to encourage critical thinking about threats and challenges posed by WMD in an era of (dis)information. This (or NDU 6015) is a required course for the University’s WMD Studies Concentration and is open to all students from all colleges, whether enrolled in the concentration or not. (Class Limit 12) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 1230 – 1430, 09/14/2020 - 12/07/2020 (11 Dec 20/1230 – 1430 - Columbus Day Make-Up Date for Elective 2 Period)

Instructors: Dr. Gerald Epstein & Ms. Sarah Jacobs Gamberini

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• Course Flyer

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This course is a graduate introduction to countering WMD at the strategic level. Hence, it is an excellent point of departure for both new strategic-level leaders without any WMD background and professionals who have spent a career dealing with WMD at the tactical and operational level. We begin with the rock-bottom question to which no one has ever given a completely satisfactory answer: “What exactly is a WMD?” Then we explore why coming up with an answer is so difficult, and consider how this difficulty complicates the work of policy leaders in DoD and beyond. We shall survey all of the traditional WMD modalities: chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear, as well as emergent WMD or WMD-like threats. We shall also examine: why so-called “tactical” WMD decisions and systems are all, in reality, strategic; why both state and non-state actors find WMD so appealing and what can be done to counter them; and, what all strategic-level leaders need to understand about WMD so as not to get caught short at a time when they can least afford to be. This is a no-nonsense course with no busy work and lots of discussions that students will find themselves drawing on for the remainder of their professional lives. Requirements include one short paper (500 words) and an individual presentation on a WMD topic. This (or NDU 6014) is a required course for the University’s WMD Studies Concentration and is open to all students from all colleges, whether enrolled in the concentration or not. (Class Limit 12) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 0800 – 1000, 09/14/2020 - 12/07/2020 (10 Dec 20/1230 – 1430 - Columbus Day Make-Up Date for Elective 1 Period)

Instructor: Dr. John Mark Mattox

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This course will explore the important issues surrounding the use of social media as a source of information for the Department of Defense. For example, should you exploit the information just because you can? Can you trust it? Are you allowed to use it? If you don’t use it, what are you missing? Students will consider the potential uses of information extracted from social media, and evaluate the legal and policy requirements that restrict DOD access to much of that information. Course Objectives: Students will be able to: 1) identify and differentiate the overlaps between traditional news media and news derived from social media; 2) develop strategies for applying information from social media to support a diverse mission set; and 3) evaluate the relevant legal, policy and ethical implications. Learning outcomes will be assessed through class participation, a digital deployment exercise, and an 800-1200 word paper. This course is included in the Emerging Information Technology concentration.
(Class Limit 10) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 0900 - 1100, 09/15/2020 - 12/08/2020

Instructor: Ms. Joanna Seich

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This course will examine ethical dilemmas inherent in the development and execution of national strategies and combat operations in support of national security policy. As public officials and representatives of the nation’s principles, it is the obligation of strategic leaders and their senior advisors to be conversant with the potential ethical challenges arising in the development and execution of national security policy and to integrate solutions to those challenges into our strategies. The course will provide the practitioner with the tools to identify and deal with potential ethical issues arising in the course of strategic planning and execution. Students will receive instruction in just war theory, strategic leadership using values-based decision making, building strategic frameworks that address and integrate ethical concerns, and applying international and domestic laws and customs to enable strategies and operations. Specific topics of discussion include international and non-international armed conflict, humanitarian intervention, genocide, cyberwarfare, and the use of drones, torture, artificial intelligence, and autonomous weapons systems. Through a combination of lecture, group discussion, and case studies, students will develop and hone their ethical reasoning skills and integrate that reasoning into national security strategy and policy development. Requirements include: (1) a 10-minute oral presentation followed by 10 minutes of student-led Q&A; (2) an end of course exercise. (Class Limit 16) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 0800 – 1000, 09/14/2020 - 12/07/2020 (10 Dec 20/1230 – 1430 - Columbus Day Make-Up Date for Elective 1 Period)

Instructor: Chaplain (COL) Mitchell Butterworth, USA

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This course examines the nature and health of current civil-military relations in the United States against a normative ideal that calls for a strategically effective (operationally competent, politically neutral, socially responsible) military whose leadership provides strategically sound advice to strategically competent civilian authorities who are representative of and answerable to a civically engaged, strategically aware public, all undergirded by a critical free press, a vibrant civil society, and a properly subordinated military-industrial complex. Emphasizing the interactions between those in uniform and those in positions of civilian authority throughout the national security establishment, broadly defined, the course places due emphasis on the professional and constitutional imperatives that ensure adherence to the rule of law, ethical propriety, sound democratic governance, and strategic effectiveness. (Class Limit 20) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 0800 - 1000, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Dr. Gregory D. Foster

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• Course Overview

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This is a National Defense University Provost’s Special Program open to all colleges within National Defense University. Completed in conjunction with the year-long Joint Land Air and Sea Strategic-SP (JLASS) exercise, NSIL-P is a concentration program, therefore students who enroll and are accepted into the course participate in both the Fall and Spring semester courses (NDU 6061 and 6062) for a total of four credit hours. The focus of NSIL-P is on developing military and interagency leadership skills. Examples of the interactions executed by the National Security Council (NSC) are used throughout the course as they develop strategy and plans, and apply resources, and employ decision making during crises that develop. Students and faculty explore anticipated national security threats, the effects of globalization, and rise of trans-national crime across the instruments of national power – Diplomacy, Information, Military and Economics (DIME). Contingency warfighting issues, logistical resource concerns, while planning contingency operations in a multi-theater, resource constrained environment will be discussed. It is the ONLY course at National Defense University that collaborates and cooperates with other senior level war colleges (Air War College, Army War College, and Naval War College) through the JLASS-SP exercise. During the JLASS exercise, NDU students will role play members of the National Security Council (NSC) to include the White House Chief of Staff, National Security Advisor (NSA), and Cabinet Secretaries (SECSTATE, DNI, DOJ, DOE, etc.). JLASS is based on a notional world scenario set a decade in the future. NSC players will, as national level civilian leadership, evaluate, analyze and create national policies to include a National Security Strategy (NSS), defense strategic guidance, national intelligence strategy and numerous presidential policy directives. Students will develop a keen understanding of the processes and leadership challenges associated with planning and operating in a Joint, Interagency, Intergovernmental and Multinational (JIIM) environment. The academic year course culminates in the joint six-day JLASS exercise that incorporates other participating Senior Service Colleges held at Maxwell Air Force Base, AL. There students will apply products developed and knowledge learned during the course of the year against willful adversaries (NDU 6062). There are no prerequisites for this course. However, student backgrounds and preferences are taken into account when assigning roles. (Notes: (1) On days involving local off-site visits, the class may run later to accommodate travel time; (2) If possible, the NSIL-P class will conduct a 2 ½ day fall couplet trip to New York City during Nov 2020; otherwise similar visits will be used locally to achieve objectives). (Class Limit 20) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 1300 – 1500, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructors: Mr. Kenneth Kligge (CASL), Dr. Andrew Leith (ES), Col Keith Crawford (NWC) & Dr. William Eliason (INSS)

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• Course Overview

This course examines the nature, role, and importance of ethics in the effective conduct of statecraft. In seeking to determine the ethical propriety and strategic efficacy of particular uses of power in pursuit of national aims and advantage, the course focuses on a range of important issues associated with statecraft today: Definitional and Conceptual Foundations; Just War Doctrine and International Law; Sanctions (Violent and Nonviolent); Intervention (Protective, Preventive, Preemptive); Covert Action (Assassination, Destabilization, Illicit Trafficking); Prisoner Detention and Interrogation (Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Extraordinary Rendition, Black Sites); Technological Power (WMDs, Nonlethal Weapons, Drones, Robots, Surveillance); Intelligence and Information Operations; Official Secrecy and Deception; Domestic Civil Liberties; and International Human Rights. The overriding question addressed is whether ethical and strategic desiderata are mutually exclusive, mutually complementary, or one and the same. (Class Limit 20) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 1230 – 1430, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Dr. Gregory D. Foster

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It is better to deter war than to wage it. Part art, part science, and part policy, “deterrence” is “the prevention from action by fear from the consequences. It is a state of mind brought about by the existence of a credible threat of unacceptable counteraction.” (Joint Publication 1-02). Deterrence operates in the cognitive domain and is, essentially, an influence operation.But how does deterrence work in today’s complex security environment, and what is the Department of Defense’s role in advising on, developing and implementing deterrence strategies? The 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) -- and in particular, its emphasis on long-term competition with “revisionist powers” -- has placed renewed attention on deterrence strategies and concepts. Deterrence has a long history in U.S. national security strategy, with many policymakers, strategists, and warfighters seeking to field, posture, and deliver signals with U.S. military forces in a manner that convinces potential adversaries they will realize little benefit (and/or face unacceptably costly outcomes and consequences) if they attempt armed aggression against the United States or its allies. More broadly, the United States has also often sought to deter not just hostility but a range of malign behavior by bad actors across different domains, with varying degrees of success. During the Cold War, deterrence was often equated with nuclear deterrence. While nuclear forces remain important to U.S. deterrence strategies, 21st century deterrence is not just nuclear deterrence – it requires the full integration of all means of national power. This course will provide instruction on deterrence concepts, strategies, capabilities, and efforts to implement all three against contemporary adversaries, to include consideration of: the strategies, policies, operational concepts, and capabilities needed to deter a range of adversaries in today’s complex security environment, to include across multiple strategic domains (sea, land, air, space, and cyberspace); how to address the deterrence challenge posed by the current and potential adversaries cited in the 2018 NDS: revisionist powers (Russia and China); rogue regimes (Iran and North Korea); and violent extremist organizations (VEOs); the role of Allies and Partners in U.S. deterrence strategy and the challenges of Extended Deterrence in key regions; and addressing challenges to, and critiques of, U.S. deterrence policies and strategies. This course counts toward the two-course requirement for the Weapons of Mass Destruction Studies Area of Concentration and is open to all students from all colleges, whether enrolled in the concentration or not. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 0800 - 1000, 09/15/2020 - 12/08/2020

Instructor: Dr. Justin Anderson & Dr. Amy Nelson (Center for the Study of WMD/Institute for National Strategic Studies)

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In the past 20 years, the field of biology as a discipline has been revolutionized by our ability to read, write, and alter the genetic code of living organisms. The engineering of biology for specific purposes has been referred to as “synthetic biology”, and the products it creates now form a growing global "bioeconomy". With the emergence of this technology also comes risk – past programs to create bioweapons could be revived with today’s biotechnology tools, or completely novel bioweapons could be created. This creates a change in the WMD landscape for the potential use of biological or chemical weapons. Further, as the US bioeconomy grows, biotechnology will touch every warfighter in the arenas of health, equipment, tools, materials, or performance. The US Department of Defense has already initiated programs to accelerate DOD’s use of biotechnology to leverage innovations for benefits to the warfighter, as well as to mitigate biothreats. DOD must also determine how our adversaries will utilize biotechnology in their own military contexts. This course will cover the basics of emerging biotechnology, the history of bioweapons use, and consequence management for bioevents (including case studies of COVID19). It will equip national security professionals to understand the fundamentals of biodefense and, more broadly, the National Security Strategy, the National Defense Strategy, and the National Biodefense Strategy. Students will also explore the biotechnology and ethics of warfighter/human performance enhancement. No prior experience in biology is necessary to enroll in this course. This course counts toward the two-course requirement for the Weapons of Mass Destruction Studies Area of Concentration and is open to all students from all colleges, whether enrolled in the concentration or not. (Class Limit 15) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 1230 - 1430, 09/15/2020

Instructor: Dr. Diane DiEuliis

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• Writing Your Short Essay: Making Your Case

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• Sample Reading: The-Economist

• Sample Reading: Biotechnology for the Battlefield

• Sample Reading: CRISPR Military

• Sample Reading: Hacking President DNA

• Sample Reading: The History of Biological Weapons

• Sample Reading: The Enhanced Warfighter

This course explores the theory and practice of interstate competition among Great Powers to include the historical dimensions of Great Power Competition (GPC), the technological and geopolitical dimensions of GPC, and the most significant features of contemporary competition between the modern Great Powers: the United States, China and Russia. Course themes and threads of study will include: the main strategic objectives and instruments of relative national power for today’s three Great Powers; the key attributes of the 4th Industrial Revolution – including the impact Artificial Intelligence (AI), quantum computing, 5G, and social media – on modern GPC; and the contours of contemporary GPC in the Indo-Pacific, Middle East, Europe, the Arctic, and the Americas. Students will be challenged to consider the future trajectories of U.S.-Russia-China Great Power competition. The course contributes directly to Joint Learning Area (JLA), “The Continuum of Competition, Conflict, and War;” and, CJCS Special Area of Emphasis (SAE), “Return to Great Power Competition.” NDU 6072 is open to all students of the Eisenhower School, the National War College, the College of International Security Affairs (CISA), and the College of Information and Cyberspace (CIC) on the north campus of NDU. (Class Limit - 45) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 0930 - 1130, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020 (10 Dec 20/1330 – 1530 - Columbus Day Make-Up Date for Elective 1 Period)

Instructor: Dr. Bryce Loidolt, Dr. Tom Lynch, Dr. Frank Hoffman & Dr. Jeff Mankoff

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The Military Health System’s mission is to provide Combatant Commands & Service Components with a “medically ready force” and a “ready medical force” in support of a full-spectrum response: from combat operations to humanitarian disaster response to global theater security engagement. This course is designed for rising DoD and Inter-Agency leaders to address critical knowledge gaps in the current education of health strategy, as an instrument of national and global security, to support the needs of the DoD and our Nation. DoD and Inter-Agency Leaders need to grasp the complexities required to generate a full-spectrum medical response and the impact that health and health care delivery has on the security of the nation and the globe. This course will examine the inter-relationship between the DoD, inter-agency, and civilian health care systems and how they interact to generate a “medically ready force” and a “ready medical force.” This class does not require a background in health or medicine. This course counts toward the two-course requirement for the Health Strategy Area of Concentration. (Class Limit 12) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 1230 - 1430, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Dr. Douglas J. Robb (Lt Gen ret USAF), Ms. Tracey P. Koehlmoos, PhD., & Ms. Diana M. Luan, PhD.

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If there is a quality that our Senior Leaders seek for themselves and their subordinates, it is sustained high performance in the face of ever increasing pressure and change. Humans are the heart of our efforts in this elective, as such, human performance must be optimized and sustained to maintain effective and successful senior leaders over the long haul. Sustained high achievement requires physical, emotional, mental and spiritual strength as well as a sharp intellect. This course is designed to bring mind, body and spirit to peak condition in a world that is changing at warp speed to perform consistently at high levels. (Class Limit 18) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 1230 - 1430, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructors: Prof. Tony Spinosa & LTC Jimmie Butcher, PhD.

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• Sample Reading: The Making of a Corporate Athlete

This course examines the evolution of the European Union (EU) as a unique geopolitical entity; analyzes the historical, political, and economic origins of current EU governance policies; sets the stage for assessment of the EU as a global power with a significant defense industrial base; and traces implications for US national security strategy in the NATO context. This course is part of the European Studies Concentration, in direct support to the EUCOM Scholars and administered by the NDU Scholars Program. This course, along with NDU 6095, counts toward the two-course requirement of the European Studies Concentration. (Class Limit 18) (2 Credit Hours). TUE, 1230 - 1430, 09/14/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Dr. Irene Kyriakopoulos

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This elective is designed for students to examine one of the most formative periods in U.S. history through the lens of strategic logic. To be certain, the military instrument of power was key to Union victory. The course—primarily through student in-class presentations—will examine this aspect of the war closely. However, to appreciate the Civil War’s lessons from a strategic perspective, this course digs deeper. Using the NWC Primer as the foundation, the readings and seminar discussions will analyze the utility of the economic, informational, and especially diplomatic instruments of power, as employed by both the North and South. Analysis of the evolving strategic context—domestic and international—will be central to the elective as well. The final portion of this course will examine Reconstruction, the failure of which continues to impact American society in profound ways. In addition to their presentations, students will deliver a strategic framework based on the situation Lincoln confronted in the summer of 1862. The American Civil War through the Lens of Strategic Logic is designed for students with very limited to highly extensive knowledge of the conflict. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 1230 - 1430, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020; Columbus Day makeup on 12/11/2020

Instructor: Mr. Adam Oler

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It was known as “The Great War,” “the war to end all wars,” “the war to make the world safe for democracy.” In retrospect, the First World War is remembered as one of the greatest upheavals in history, the effects of which continue to be felt long after the peace treaties were signed. In the first decade of the 20th century some, such as writer Norman Angell, believed that a great war between the European powers was no longer possible because of increasing economic and communications ties between states; others believed that new industrialized military weapons simply made such a conflict unthinkable. 1914 saw the zenith of European imperial security strategy. Four years later a vacuum existed that directly shaped our world today. This course goes beyond the operations, tactics, and diplomacy of 1914-1918 to examine the larger strategies and what happens when you fail to understand both the kind of war into which you embark, and the political, economic, and social order that follows. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 1230 - 1430, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020; Columbus Day makeup on 12/11/2020

Instructor: Dr. Bob Watts & Ms. Linda Jantzen

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Nuclear weapons have the power to change the world forever. Anyone aspiring to be a national security strategist needs a solid understanding of nuclear weapons and the many issues surrounding them today. What are they for? Why are nuclear weapon states modernizing their forces, and why are others trying to acquire them? How much is enough, can proliferation be stopped, and what about Global Zero? How do missile defenses play? This course will address these and other questions related to nuclear weapons and national security in the 21st century. The first block will cover nuclear weapon basics, the evolution of nuclear strategy, and the concept of nuclear deterrence and how it is changing. The second block will address the forces and policies of states with nuclear weapons, efforts by others to get them, different approaches to slowing proliferation, the role that arms control treaties do or do not play in cutting nuclear forces, and the relationship between nuclear deterrence and missile defense. The final block will consider prospects for further reductions in and elimination of nuclear weapons, address current issues related to US nuclear policy and force structure, and will provide an opportunity for students to present their views on how nuclear weapons fit into national security strategy in the 21st Century. Each student will be responsible for one in-class presentation, as well as a 3-page op-ed piece on a topic of interest. This course counts toward the two-course requirement for the Weapons of Mass Destruction Studies Area of Concentration. This course requires Top Secret clearance. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 1230 - 1430, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Dr. Mark Bucknam

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This classified course is intended for those without extensive backgrounds in intelligence. It will start by looking at and beyond the US Intelligence Community’s (IC) public surface to identify the foundational elements and undercurrents, such as the role of US intelligence at the national level, and the IC’s different components, capabilities, and current challenges. It will then examine some of the IC’s non-traditional challenges and roles, such as support to homeland security, law enforcement, domestic crises and disasters, public health, counter-threat finance, diplomacy efforts, arms control, and CT/COIN/IW. It will finish by focusing on broader structural, legal, and ethical constraints, in addition to ways to think about intelligence as a core key element of any long-term strategic approach to national security. The course will include one or more site visits to local IC organizations and meetings with IC expert guest speakers. Students will read sections of Mark Lowenthal’s book, Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy (7th edition) and other selected articles, participate in classroom discussions, complete several in-class quizzes, and write several memos on intelligence issues. This course is open to US students with Top Secret/SCI clearance (or SCI eligible); students are responsible for verifying/passing clearances with/to NDU Security. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 0830 - 1030, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Mr. Bruce Louie

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This course combines the basics of negotiation theory and the examination of select case studies with a series of “hands-on” negotiation exercises. The objective of this course is to develop and refine individual negotiation skills by: (1) applying key negotiation preparation and implementation concepts to a wide range of negotiation challenges and (2) assessing and refining individual approaches to conflict management and negotiation performance through rigorous peer review and self-critique. Students will complete the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) to assess individual tendencies in dealing with conflict. TKI is a well-established assessment tool with thirty years of proven use in measuring conflict-handling behavior. This instrument will provide students with a profile that will be used to set individual goals for developing or refining specific negotiating skills. Texts include: Roger Fisher and William Ury, Getting to Yes; Michael Watkins and Susan Rosegrant, Breakthrough International Negotiation; Dennis Ross, Statecraft; Robert Mnookin, Bargaining With the Devil; Kenneth Thomas, Introduction to Conflict Management; and R. Nicholas Burns and Robert Mnookin, Kissinger the Negotiator. Requirements include class discussion, participation in seven negotiation exercises, participation in self-assessment and peer review, and two written negotiation worksheets (4-7 pages each). (Class Limit 12) (2 Credit Hours) NWC 6013A: TUE, 0830 - 1030, NWC 6013B: TUE, 1230 - 1430, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020 

Instructor: Ms. Lisa Bronson

[Link] Open Bb Collaborate Elective Fair Session

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"What were they really thinking? For this course, students will read and discuss the memoirs of presidents, national security advisors, secretaries of state, and other high foreign policy officials from the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush 41 and Clinton Administrations. Unlike the third-person analytical pieces usually read in other courses, these classic, primary sources teach both process and substance from the authentic viewpoint of those who have “been there.” First-person accounts allow students to examine the relationships, perspectives, actions, and policy decisions of strategic leaders and policy-makers over five administrations in peace and war. Class time is used exclusively for structured discussion. Paper requirements are waived in favor of a presentation and a reading load double the usual elective. Students will be asked to present one of the case studies in more depth. This course is particularly useful to supplement core courses in national security strategy and the interagency process. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 1230 - 1430, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020; Columbus Day makeup on 12/11/2020

Instructor: Ambassador Kelly Keiderling & Dean Mike Peznola

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The National War College Leadership in the New World Disorder elective examines the role of operational and strategic-level leaders in an increasingly complex world of networks and constant connection. The focus is on providing a lens through which senior leaders can make sense of uncertain environments and effectively adapt and respond to unanticipated problems. Students will consider organizational culture and change management, as well as, critical thinking to improve leadership practice and prepare for future challenges. In addition to assessing the new landscape of disorder and disruption, the seminar will survey a range of leadership lessons, primarily focusing on Stanley McChrystal’s Team of Teams and Jim Mattis’ Call Sign Chaos.(Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 0830 - 1030, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Mr. Timothy Ott

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President Theodore Roosevelt was a uniquely talented leader at many levels of government, in diplomacy, and in combat. He served, at various times in his life, as a State Assemblyman, Historian, NY City Police Commissioner, Rancher, Civil Service Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Deputy Commander of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry (The “Rough Riders”), Governor of New York, Vice President, and President of the United States. This course will examine the life of this remarkable individual in the context of Strategic Leadership, a term that can be defined as “the process of aligning people, systems, and resources to achieve a vision for the enterprise while enabling an adaptive and innovative culture necessary to gain an advantage in a competitive environment.” The course will use a variety of sources on President Roosevelt and on the subject of leadership in a critical analysis of TR’s strengths and weaknesses, and how this life and its lessons can inform our own development as leaders. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 0830 - 1030, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Prof. Jaimie Orr, MA, JD, LL.M

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This course will examine the ideologies, the weapons, the leaders and the strategies of the Second World War. Beginning with an examination of the uneasy period following the end of World War One, we will examine the rise of the international militant ideologies that were a major source of conflict and the strategies that attempted to deal with the theoretical impact of new technologies. We will then examine the reality of global war vice the theory, and how each major technology in the air, sea, and land realms adapted to be major elements in strategy. Finally, we will examine the demands of Coalition Warfare in all of the major campaigns of the conflict, analyzing the various reasons for success or failure. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 0830 - 1030, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Mr. George Kuk

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How do governments formulate and implement their national security strategies and foreign policies? The goal of this seminar is to offer a more in-depth examination of the processes by which important strategic decisions are made. If strategy focuses on devising the “best” approach to achieving viable national goals, decision-making analysis probes how and why stakeholders arrive at their decisions. Decision-making analysis also underscores the complexity underlying all decisions, including individual biases, political agendas, personalities, the media, and bureaucratic procedures. With its focus on multiple perspectives on decision-making, the seminar’s readings illuminate the role of psychology, sociology, and include some emphasis on the role of women, race, and gender in foreign policy making. The topics range from analogical reasoning, important heuristics and cognitive biases that are common to all decision-making, group-think, the limits to information processing, and how these can affect individuals’ choices. These topics are discussed using historical and contemporary examples from the US foreign policy and broader cross-national perspective. Student assessment will be based on their active participation in the seminar meetings, a short critical analysis of a proposed strategy from the policy analysis perspective, and a 1-page policy briefing assignment. (Class Limit 12) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 1230 - 1430, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020; Columbus Day makeup on 12/11/2020

Instructor: Dr. Mariya Omelicheva

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This course provides national security strategists and policymakers with a foundation for participating constructively in government responses to the current and future pandemics. In the first block, the course begins with an overview of the basic biology and epidemiology of disease followed by an introduction to the strategies and methods used in public health. The second block then presents case studies of diseases—plague, small pox, cholera, malaria, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Zika, influenza (SARS, H1N1, COVID-19, etc.)—to develop analytic skills for understanding the full range of technical, political, economic, social, and ethical issues that policy strategists must consider when responding to pandemics. The third block then presents behavioral science, economic, security, and organizational/agency perspectives as a basis for classroom discussion of the concepts and tools available for strategy design and implementation. The course takes a broad view of health and disease, comparing the interplay of politics and medical culture in different countries and the global context. It considers a wide variety of interrelated health challenges and policies associated with, for example, sanitation, maternal health, nutrition, working conditions, ecology, poverty, climate, agricultural practices, pollution, misinformation, religious practices, and conflict. By the end of the course, students will be expected to define best practices and develop frameworks for harmonizing political and technical strategies in response to pandemics. Class grades will be based on seminar contributions and two deliverables. The first deliverable will be a 3-page memo assessing a past case of disease response to inform COVID-19 strategy for senior policymakers. The second deliverable will be an in-class briefing—presented in the final session—that applies insights from the course to assesses an agency’s or organization’s performance thus far in responding to COVID-19. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 0830 - 1030, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020; Columbus Day makeup 1230-1430, 12/10/2020

Instructor:  Dr. Eric Silla

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The nexus of domestic forces unnerving China's leadership along with Beijing's evolving international role plays an increasingly central point in U.S. national security concerns. This course discusses the array of substantial challenges which the Chinese leadership must juggle in a country with almost five times the population of the United States with far fewer resources, fewer geographic advantages, and a historic obsession with national humiliation. At the same time, China appears to be a player in far more parts of the world than it ever has, making many within the United States anxious about its ambitions while threatening the three quarters of a century balancing system of East Asia. The course requires seminar participation, a policy paper for a senior leader, a critique of a peer's paper, and a group presentation. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 1230 - 1430, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020; Columbus Day makeup on 12/11/2020

Instructor: Dr. Cynthia Watson

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The ten countries of Southeast Asia, with a combined population of over 650 million and enormous diversity, have a host of security challenges. Several Southeast Asian states have longstanding territorial disputes with their neighbors and irredentist claims over colonial-drawn borders. The region includes a host of secessionist insurgencies, including ongoing ones in Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand. While Southeast Asia has not been at the core of Salafist terrorism since 9/11, both Al Qaeda and Islamic State affiliates in the region remain a persistent threat. Mid-2017 saw IS militants siege the Philippine city of Marawi, while members of the Abu Sayyaf continue to engage in terrorism and kidnapping for ransom. Perhaps the most immediate threat to regional security is the territorial dispute over the South China Sea, where China has constructed six man made islands and militarized them. The US has carried out regular freedom of navigation operations to challenge China's excessive maritime claims, but those have been insufficient. China has effectively divided and neutralized ASEAN. And there remain a host of human security issues including pandemics, political violence, the politicization of security forces, attacks on ethnic minorities, including wholesale ethnic cleansing, and threats posed by transnational criminal syndicates. Arguably the greatest security threat to the region comes from climate change which is already causing changes immigration patterns and impacting food security. Southeast Asian states are keen to avoid being forced to choose between the United States and China, as competition between the two intensifies. The goal of this course is to give Southeast Asian states agency, and focus on their regional security concerns. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 0830 - 1030, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020; Columbus Day makeup 1230-1430, 12/10/2020

Instructor: Dr. Zachary Abuza

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Entering the third decade of the 21st century, United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has its largest force structure and its largest budget since its inception in 1987. After two decades of an almost myopic focus on counter-terrorism, what is the role of Special Operations Forces (SOF) in light of a renewed focus on great power competition? What is the strategic utility of special operations? What ways and means do special operations bring to a practitioner of national security strategy? Given the dynamic nature of the 21st century security environment, SOF – with their ability to operate unilaterally, by with and through international partners, in conjunction with interagency partners, or as part of operations involving larger general purpose forces – are likely to remain a frequently preferred “go-to” option. This course seeks to provide the national security strategist a baseline understanding of SOF structure, capabilities, and limitations along with perspective on key issues shaping the force for the future. Additionally, the course will look at USSOCOM as both a global combatant command and a service-like organization. It will also address the sometimes misunderstood aspects of the resources and authorities that go along with its uniqueness in the Department of Defense. The knowledge gained from this course should provide the national security strategist options to consider when searching for opportunities to achieve objectives across the range of conflicts.This course requires a SECRET clearance. (Class limit 10) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 1230 - 1430, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020; Columbus Day makeup on 12/11/2020

Instructors: COL James Hayes & Col Keith Crawford

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"What is the essence of diplomacy? It’s as easy as “engagement,” and as hard as persuading another individual to change his/her mind in favor of your position. Now, in the age of networks and constant competition, we need to convince whole populations to agree with our position. U.S. foreign policy over the past 100 years has converged around five essential goals: (1) mutual understanding: to understand the world, have the world understand us, and together maintain a rules-based world order, (2) security: to seek greater security for the United States in a conflictive, perennially gray-zone international system, (3) prosperity: to make the U.S. more prosperous in an increasingly interdependent global order, (4) democracy: to defend the values of democracy, and (5) justice: to espouse justice in an inequitable world. Diplomacy, classically understood, is used to advance foreign policy on the international stage. How do we exercise diplomacy and to what ends? This course will introduce students to a broad array of foreign policy goals and the gamut of instruments that the United States uses to address threats, take advantage of opportunities, and shape the international environment. Using strategic logic, students will delve into the policy goals of the U.S. government, understand the global context for those goals, and design ends-ways-means packages to advance particular foreign policy goals. Students will emerge with a nuanced understanding of the statecraft and instruments of diplomacy. They will gain a greater understanding of the efforts involved in keeping the U.S. strong in our fractious, chaotic world. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 0830 - 1030, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020; Columbus Day makeup 1230-1430, 12/10/2020

Instructors: Ms. Kelly Adams-Smith

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The primary objective of this course is to introduce students to the complex historic, political, cultural and military interaction between the Middle East and the West, defined as Europe and the United States. A special emphasis will the presence of Islam in the West and particularly the integration problems of Muslim communities in Europe. Turkey's relations with the EU is also covered. Students will gain a better understanding of the changing nature and character of Islam in Western Europe and its future impact on western society and culture. The course complements and reinforces recurring themes in other electives and core courses, particularly those with regional or global focus. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 1230 - 1430, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020; Columbus Day makeup on 12/11/2020

Instructor: Dr. Omer Taspinar

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This course examines the role of public diplomacy/strategic communication as an instrument of state power designed to inform and influence external audiences in the service of national security and foreign policy objectives. We will look at public diplomacy concepts, institutions, toolkits and practices, and critical issues. Designed for national security practitioners, the course will focus on understanding a strategic instrument that is relevant to and employed by multiple departments and agencies within the U.S. Government (USG). The course also will examine how other state and non-state actors use public diplomacy concepts and tools. By the end of the course, students will be able to: evaluate the role of public diplomacy in advancing national security objectives; analyze audiences, including formal and informal information sources that influence public opinion; develop a focused and realistic public diplomacy strategy to advance a national security policy/issue; and consider ways to measure impact. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 1230 - 1430, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Dr. Sonya Finley

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This course is designed to explore the complex environment, instruments of power, and strategic intelligence of the revolutionary era and the evolution of the decision-making process of General George Washington. In collaboration with the scholars of The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, students will gain in-depth perspective on the visionary leadership of George Washington. It will reacquaint students of national security strategy with this quintessential, inspirational, and ethical leader. It will also enhance participating students’ professional and personal development utilizing leadership theory, historical examples, and contemporary applications to explore and examine the leadership narrative of the life and legacy of General George Washington. The purposes of this course are to introduce students to the forces that influenced the strategic decisions of Washington and to better comprehend those drivers and conditions that Washington sought to understand through the collection of strategic intelligence. Knowing what influenced Washington’s decision-making will improve students’ understanding of the complexities of revolutionary movements and the depth of challenges faced by nascent political movements facing a well-established power. Course will include one or two offsite meetings at the Mt Vernon GW Library and two optional staff rides to Valley Forge and Yorktown. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 0830 - 1030, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020; Columbus Day makeup 1230-1430, 12/10/2020

Instructor: Dr. David Arnold

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This is a comprehensive survey course on contemporary Russia. This course is for US Students only. The objectives of the course are twofold: to provide students with a thorough understanding of security and foreign policy developments in today’s Russia and to examine the effective ways of interactions. After a brief introduction to the Russian and Soviet historical background, the course will focus on the post-Soviet period in the 20th and 21st centuries. Topics to be examined will include domestic political and economic developments in Russia since 1991; major themes and trends in Russian foreign and security policy; grey zone activities: fluctuations in U.S.-Russian relations; Russia’s foreign-policy tools; and Russian policies and actions toward Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. We will also examine current Russian-related topics as they arise. The course consists of twelve weekly two-hour seminars designed for maximum student participation and interaction after preparation through targeted readings. Students will be expected to write and present a memorandum on issues that are important in contemporary U.S.-Russian relations, or a similarly important regional issue. They will also participate in class debates and the international crisis prevention or resolution simulations based on Russia’s activities in the different parts of the world. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 1230 - 1430, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Dr. Elena Kovalova

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Will China deploy surface-to-air missiles on contested South China Sea islands before December, 31, 2020? Will North Korea test another thermonuclear warhead before 2021? All of our judgments and any decisions stemming from these questions involve forecasts, even if the forecasts are made implicitly. As you have learned during your careers, the national security field is replete with forecasts. Along very different time horizons, how would you make decisions about the national security implications of nano-technology in a world where state monopoly on the exercise of violence breaks down by 2050? To address questions about the disruptive effects of technologies and other far future events, decision makers use a different approach: The practice of foresight. As you will learn in this course, foresight is very different than forecasting, yet many analysts and decision makers fail to understand the distinctions. This course aims to introduce you to forecasting and foresight in national security and international relations. We will start by discussing issues regarding forecasting geopolitical events such as interstate and intrastate conflict, international crises, political violence, protests, terror attacks, political instability, leadership changes, international negotiations, etc. Later, we will turn to the practice of foresight and consider its practice in several areas, including geopolitics, demographics, and technology. Lecture time will be minimal, mostly spent contextualizing the topics. The course’s sessions will concentrate on analyzing issues covered in the readings through group discussion. Additionally, you will also participate in a practical, hands-on exercise by participating in a forecasting tournament administered on-line; the tournament will run for the duration of the elective. The forecasting approach used in the tournament is the same approach described in the book Superforecasting; it’s a method that produces predictive accuracy that far exceeded analytic judgments of experienced intelligence analysts. Of note, you will be evaluated based on your participation, not performance, and you will receive expert feedback at the end of the course on your skills as a forecaster. By course end you will have received a reasonable introduction to the forecasting and foresight literatures, and you will be prepared to read and think more broadly on the various topics pertaining to forecasting and foresight and how they apply to national security and foreign policy decision making. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 0830 - 1030, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: CAPT Trent Hesslink

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The purpose of this course is to explore the use of terrorism not as an abstract construct, but as a coherent and multi-pronged strategy employed by non-state actors. The end goal of the course will be for students to understand how terrorists view the battlespace, marshal resources, and compete against both the state as well as rival organizations. Special attention will be paid to the ends of terrorism and how terrorists match ways and means to achieve those ends. The course will delve into the military tactics of terrorism such as assassination, suicide bombings, etc., but will also look at how diplomatic, informational, and economic tactics come together to form a holistic “Grand Strategy." Students will be expected to debate and critique specific case studies of terrorist strategy. The final project will be an assessment of a historical case study in terrorist strategy. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) MON, 0830 - 1030, 09/14/2020 – 12/07/2020; Columbus Day makeup 1230-1430, 12/10/2020

Instructor: Dr. Bradley J. McAllister

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Examines the “generic” nature of strategy by going outside the familiar realm of political-military events. While it has explicitly military roots, the word “strategy,” fundamentally definable as “the process of interrelating ends and means,” pervades all of human life – indeed, all of life: Viruses, after all, have strategies – which often triumph over our best efforts to resist. We will look both at broad scientific concepts that seem to have fundamental relevance to strategy (e.g., decision-making theory, chaos and complexity science, game theory, evolutionary theory) and at other environments that might be analogous to those of the national strategist. Such environments might include big business or major-league sports, crime control in a major city, and the building of non-state institutions – say, an organized crime cartel or a religion. Throughout the course, we will carry on a “strategic conversation” that consistently interrelates the diverse subject matter to our core interest in national strategic issues. Students are expected to participate energetically in seminar debate and to produce a short paper or presentation. (Class Limit 12) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 0830 - 1030, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: CAPT Douglas Reckamp

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For nearly four hundred years, the Roman Republic developed and evolved, growing from a small collection of villages to the dominant power in the Western Mediterranean. However, beginning in the last decades of the 2nd Century BCE, the Republic was wracked by a series of crises and conflicts that ultimately destroyed the Republic and resulted in imperial rule. This course examines the causes and consequences of Rome’s domestic crises, juxtaposing those internal conflicts with the continued growth of Roman power internationally. Topics covered will include the Tribunates of the Gracchus Brothers, the rise of Gaius Marius and his military reforms, the causes and conduct of the Social War, Sulla and his constitutional reforms, the slave revolt led by Spartacus, the career of Pompey the Great, and finally, the life and achievements of Julius Caesar. The course will also examine many of the other great personalities of the time – Crassus, the richest man in Rome; Cicero, the famous statesman and author; Cato the Younger; Cleopatra; and many, many others. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 1230 - 1430, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: Dr. Bernard Finel

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Sports and politics is a story of some success, a bit of failure, but mostly missed opportunity. This is not a course on sports history or athletic achievement but an academic study using sports as a vehicle to answer the fundamental question: What “position” can sports “play” on the “field” of U.S. National Security? To answer this question, this course combines a contextual analysis viewed through the unique lens of sports and the application of sports as an instrument of national power to design a new Game Plan for U.S. National Security. Further strategy analysis will determine how sports can address either a threat or opportunity to achieve national interest victory. For the final project, students will identify a security issue of interest, determine how sports can be either act as a singular solution or part of a broader strategy, and then present their findings in both oral and written form. (Class Limit 13) (2 Credit Hours) TUE, 1230 - 1430, 09/15/2020 – 12/08/2020

Instructor: CAPT Corey Ray

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