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Military History I

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Course Description

The acquisition of knowledge that can be used to solve tactical, operational and strategic problems based on successful and unsuccessful examples from military history.

Study Programmes

undergraduate
[ZAGREB-] Military Leadership and Management - study
(3. semester)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify key events, people and processes in military history
  2. Define a timeline, space and features of wars
  3. Discover leading reasons and multiple consequences of wars
  4. Analyze individual battles and military operations in different wars
  5. Compare the different wars and their characteristics
  6. Judge military figures and their military actions
  7. Explain military achievements and constraints in history
  8. Explain the development of weapons and war equipment
  9. Discover ways of expanding war doctrine
  10. Classify the different theories that have preoccupied theorists of war

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

Lectures

Seminars and workshops

Analysis of assigned readings

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Lectures: Introduction to the military history Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  2. Lectures: Armies, military leaders and battles of the Ancient Orient Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  3. Lectures: Sword and fire on land and aea: Ancient Greek Warfare Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  4. Lectures: The Rise and the fall of the Roman military forces Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  5. Lectures: Defensive battles in Croatian historical area Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  6. Lectures: Warrior and soldier in Ancient World: social position Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  7. Lectures: The Byzantine armed forces in context of the Medieval Warfare Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  8. Lectures: Military organization, armament and warfare in Medieval Europe Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  9. Lectures: Siege warfare, fortress and armament in the Medieval Period Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  10. Lectures: The rise of Ottomans to the military great power of the Late Medieval and the Early Modern Period Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  11. Lectures: Military revolution and the Thirty Years War Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  12. Lectures: Seven Years War: World War of the 18th century Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  13. Lectures: The American war of independence Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  14. Lectures: Warfare in the Napoleonic period Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  15. Lectures: Warfare in the Napoleonic period Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings

Literature

Michael Eliot Howard (2002.), Rat u europskoj povijesti, Srednja Europa
Martin J. Dougherty, Michael E. Haskew, Christer Jorgensen, Chris Mann, Chris McNab, Michael Neiberg, Michael Pavković (2014.), Velike bitke. Odlučujući sukobi koji su oblikovali povijest, Znanje
Simon Anglim, Phyllis G. Jestice, Rob S. Rice, Scott M. Rusch, John Serrati (2013.), Fighting Techniques of the Ancient World (3000 B. C. to 500 A. D.), St. Martin's Press
Helen Nicholson (2003.), Medieval Warfare, Palgrave Macmillan
Jeremy Black (2008.), War and the World, Yale University Press

For students

General

ID 282345
  Winter semester
4.0 ECTS
L1 English Level
L1 e-Learning
30 Lectures
30 Seminar

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