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Comparative Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine
- Instructor
- Prof. Barry Posen
- Term
- Fall 2004
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 2 readings · 5 other files · 4 web pages
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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 17.484 Comparative Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine, Fall 2004, Prof. Barry Posen — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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- Comparative Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine Download
- Nationalism and Military Power / Nationalism and Expansionism Download
- Military Organizations, the Business of War, and what it means for Innovation Download
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Lecture 2: Material Influences on Strategy: Geographical Position, National Power and Military Technology
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Lecture 3: Military Organizations
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Lecture 4: Nationalism
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Lecture 5: The International Political System: Constraints, Incentives and Interactions
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Lecture 6: Historical Case Studies
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Lecture 7: The Anglo-German Rivalry (Naval and Otherwise)
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Lecture 8: Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine Among the Pre-WWI Land Powers
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Lecture 9: The July Crisis, Military Strategy and the Outbreak of the War
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Lecture 10: The Course and Conduct of WWI
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Lecture 11: British and German Grand Strategy in the 1930s
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Lecture 12: French Grand Strategy
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Lecture 13: Military Doctrine, Land Warfare, and the Crises of the Late 1930s
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Lecture 14: The Opening Battles of the War
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Barry Posen, 17.484 Comparative Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine, Fall 2004.
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