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The war colleges are more intellectual than many people think. The curricula of those schools include most of the seminal works on war and statecraft from Thucy
by pclmulqdq 1y ago
The war colleges are more intellectual than many people think. The curricula of those schools include most of the seminal works on war and statecraft from Thucydides to Kissinger.
- psunavy03 1y agoI was disappointed they truncated the remote version of Strategy and War and we didn't get to dig into Thucydides and Corbett. I will say getting that intellectualism to stick in the officer corps doesn't necessarily always work. There are jokes about "it's only a lot of reading if you do the reading," and oftentimes being able to spend a year in residence gets passed over in favor of sending people to other assignments and expecting them to do the War College syllabus by correspondence. That said, the War Colleges are also heavily involved in things like designing and evaluating higher-level military exercises, red-teaming things, etc.