Strategic Studies: Mastering the Art of Modern Warfare

By Fouad Sabry

What is Strategic Studies

Strategic studies is an interdisciplinary academic field centered on the study of peace and conflict strategies, often devoting special attention to the relationship between military history, international politics, geostrategy, international diplomacy, international economics, and military power. In the scope of the studies are also subjects such as the role of intelligence, diplomacy, and international cooperation for security and defense. The subject is normally taught at the post-graduate academic or professional, usually strategic-political and strategic-military levels.

How you will benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Strategic studies

Chapter 2: Carl von Clausewitz

Chapter 3: Military academy

Chapter 4: On War

Chapter 5: Military science

Chapter 6: Hew Strachan

Chapter 7: Michael Howard (historian)

Chapter 8: National Defence University of Warsaw

Chapter 9: Staff college

Chapter 10: Center of gravity (military)

(II) Answering the public top questions about strategic studies.

Who this book is for

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Strategic Studies.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
• Release date: Jun 2, 2024

Book preview

Chapter 1: Strategic studies

Strategic studies is an interdisciplinary academic area that focuses on the study of conflict and peace tactics, frequently focusing on the interrelationships between military history, international politics, geostrategy, international diplomacy, and international economics. the function of intelligence, diplomacy, and international cooperation for security and defense are also included in the scope of the study. Typically, the subject is taught at the postgraduate academic or professional level, typically at the strategic-political and strategic-military levels. In general, strategic thinkers will look for recurring patterns, which cannot predict the features of an individual instance even if it fits a bigger category; not all patterns of characteristics will be found in every situation.

In the recent past, Strategic strategists like as Mahan were inspired by the great conflicts of the nineteenth century and the two World Wars, Corbett, Giulio Douhet, Together, Liddell Hart and, later, André Beaufre.

The Cold War's potential degeneration into a nuclear war led to the expansion of the field, authors such as Bernard Brodie, Michael Howard, Raymond Aron, Lucien Poirier, Lawrence Freedman, Colin Gray, numerous others.

The subject is taught in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

In Nigeria, the Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, the Nigerian Defence Academy, the University of Ibadan, Covenant University, and the Conflict, Peace, and Strategic Studies programs at Afe Babalola University Nigeria and Nasarawa State University Keffi offer master's and doctoral degrees in Security and Strategic Studies. In South Africa, the Faculty of Military Science at the University of Stellenbosch offers undergraduate through doctoral-level courses in strategic studies. Co-located at the South African Military Academy in Saldanha, the Faculty of Military Science also teaches the subject at the South African Defence and War Colleges.

The subject is taught in the Universities of St Andrews (Ireland) and Warsaw in Europe (Poland).

It is taught in Chile, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, and the United States. In Brazil, it is taught in the Federal Universities of Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, and Fluminense. It is taught in Canada at the University of Calgary and the Royal Military College. It is taught in the Chilean Ministry of Defense's National Academy of Political and Strategic Studies. In the United States, the subject is taught at numerous state, private, and military universities, such as the University of Missouri, the United States Military Academy, the United States Air Force Academy, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, Missouri State University, the University of Texas at El Paso, Norwich University, Temple University, the U.S. Army War College, Air University's Air War College, U.S. Naval War College, Marine Corps War College, and the National Defense University.

Moreover, it is taught in a number of nations in Asia and the Pacific. It is taught at the national universities, Bangladesh University of Professionals, National Defense University, and military academies in Bangladesh. It is taught in Australia at the Australian National University. It is taught at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. The S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies is located in Singapore. University of Malaya in Malaysia.

The subject is mostly taught at Quaid-I-Azam University (QAU), National Defence University (NDU), University of Punjab, and Fatima Jinnah Women's University in Pakistan. Deen Dyal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Savitribai Phule Pune University, University of Allahabad National Defence University, and Islamia College University Peshawar are universities in India and Pakistan, respectively. Strategic Research Institute (SAREN) of the Turkish War Academy teaches the subject at the master's and doctoral levels.

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Chapter 2: Carl von Clausewitz

Prussian officer and military theorist Carl Philipp Gottfried (or Gottlieb) von Clausewitz placed emphasis on the moral, or psychological in current parlance, and political aspects of engaging in war. Though unfinished at the time of his passing, his most famous work, Vom Kriege (On War), is regarded as a key study on military tactics.

While in some ways romantic, Clausewitz was a realist in many other terms, including realpolitik. He also extensively drew from the rationalist concepts of the European Enlightenment.

Clausewitz emphasized the dialectical interaction of various factors, pointing out that commanders must act quickly in the face of unexpected developments that are occurring in the fog of war (i.e., in the face of incomplete, dubious, and frequently inaccurate information as well as great fear, doubt, and excitement). He believed that history served as an essential check on intellectual abstractions that did not match reality. He maintained that, in contrast to Antoine-Henri Jomini's early work, war could not be measured or reduced to mapwork, geometry, or graphs. The most well-known of Clausewitz's many aphorisms is War is the continuation of policy by other methods. (often mistranslated as by other ways).

In non-German publications, Clausewitz's Christian names have occasionally been listed as Karl, Carl Philipp Gottlieb, or Carl Maria. In order to align himself with the classical Western tradition, he spelled his own given name with a C; writers who use Karl sometimes want to stress their German (rather than European) origin. On Clausewitz's gravestone, it says Carl Philipp Gottfried..

On June 1, 1780, Clausewitz was born in Burg bei Magdeburg, in the Prussian Duchy of Magdeburg. He was the youngest and fourth son of a noble-status-claiming family, which Carl acknowledged.

The family of Clausewitz claimed to be descended from the Upper Silesia-based Barons of Clausewitz, even though academics dispute the association.

On Machiavelli was written by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, as a Writer, and His Writings, Passages, June 1807.

(Über Machiavell, als Schriftsteller, and instances from his writings).

Regarding his book on Machiavelli, Carl Clausewitz sent a fascinating and anonymous letter to Fichte in 1809.

The letter was printed in Verstreute kleine Schriften by Fichte, 157–166.

See Carl von Clausewitz Historical and Political Writings for an English translation of the text. D and Peter Paret edited the text.

Moran (1992).

On December 10th, 1810, he married the socially prominent Countess Marie von Brühl, whom he'd first encountered in 1803.

She was a member of the noble German Brühl family originating in Thuringia.

The couple circulated in echelon, getting to know Berlin's political, literary, and intellectual élite.

Marie was educated and politically connected; she was instrumental in her husband's professional and intellectual development.

She passed away in January 1836.

Although Clausewitz served as a professional combat soldier in multiple military operations, he is best known as a military theorist who studied war and used Napoleon's and Frederick the Great's campaigns as models