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Land Warfare Certificate
18 Semester Hours

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Not open to students who elect this as concentration in the MA in Military Studies

Upon completion of this certificate students will be able to:

  • Discern war fighting from ancient times to the beginning of the 17th Century to the present with emphasis on technological advances in land warfare and their effects on strategy and tactics.
  • Distinguish and apply the principles of war using actual campaigns from various historical periods.
  • Evaluate the tactics applicable to today's exigencies of conflict and compare past styles of war fighting with the potential use against contemporary military and paramilitary forces.
  • Discriminate "unconventional operations" within the larger scope of a conventional land warfare and debate how LIC (Low Intensity Conflict) or OOTW (Operations Other Than War) may be applied.
  • Assess the conventional and unconventional land warfare of the future in light of technological change and the information age, non-state military threats, rogue regimes, and clashes of culture between regions.

  • LC505 / MILS620 - Studies in Future War
  • LW546 / MILS540 - Land Warfare from Antiquity to the 21st Century
  • LW552 / MILS541 - Campaign and Battle Analysis
  • LW553 / MILS542 - Contemporary Tactical Thought
  • LW585 / MILS543 - Urban Warfare
  • MS614 / MILS520 - National Political/Military Goals & Strategies


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