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Military History II

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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 unsuccesful examples from military history.

Study Programmes

undergraduate
Military Leadership and Management - study
(4. semester)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Identify key events, people and processes in military history
  2. Establish a timeline, space and features of wars
  3. Consider 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. Discuss military figures and their military actions
  7. Explain military achievements and constraints in history
  8. Expose the development of weapons and war equipment
  9. Discover ways of expanding war doctrine
  10. Judge the different theories that have preoccupied theorists of war

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

Seminars and workshops

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Lectures: A history of the art of war: warfare and its theoreticians Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  2. Lectures: Europe after the Congress of Vienna: reaction and rise of national states Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  3. Lectures: 1848 and consequences Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  4. Lectures: Americas: liberation wars and US Civil War Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  5. Lectures: European civilization, 1871-1914 Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  6. Lectures: World War I Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  7. Lectures: Consequences of the World War I Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  8. Lectures: The interwar period (1918-1941) in international, European, and Croatian scope Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  9. Lectures: World War II Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  10. Lectures: Consequences of the World War II Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  11. Lectures: Cold War and the twentieth-century grand strategy Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  12. Lectures: Croatian Homeland War Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  13. Lectures: Methodology of analysis of war operations Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  14. Lectures: Military leaders and the art of command Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings
  15. Lectures: Weapons and warfare in the postmodern period Exercises: Analysis of assigned readings

Literature

(.), Howard, Michael, Rat u europskoj povijesti, Zagreb, 2002.,
(.), Pavičić, Slavko, Hrvatska vojna i ratna povijest i Prvi svjetski rat, Split, 2009.,
(.), Black, Jeremy, War and the World: Military Power and the Fate of Continents 1450-2000, New Haven-London, 2005.,
(.), Archer, Christon I. et al., World History of Warfare, Lincoln, Nebr., 2002.,

For students

General

ID 282346
  Summer semester
4.0 ECTS
L0 English Level
L1 e-Learning
30 Lectures
30 Seminar