Strategic studies

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Strategic studies is an

post-graduate academic or professional, usually strategic-political and strategic-military levels.[1]

The academic foundations of the subject began with classic texts initially from the Orient such as

Art of War and went on to gain a European focus with Carl von Clausewitz’s On War. Like Clausewitz, many academics in this field reject monocausal theories and hypotheses that reduce the study of conflict to one independent variable and one dependent variable. Already in the late eighteenth century, a colourful mathematician named Dietrich Heinrich von Bülow attempted to establish mathematical formulae for the conduct of war. Carl von Clausewitz rejected Bülow’s approach and his popular claim that warfare could be reduced to positivist, teachable principles of war. Instead of formulae, we find Clausewitz stressing, time and again, that the whole purpose of educating the military commander is not to give him a series of answers for the task he will face (the complexities of which cannot be foreseen), but to educate him about different aspects of what will face him so as to let him evaluate the situation for himself, and develop his own strategy.[2]
Strategic thinkers on the whole will search for recurrent patterns, which in themselves cannot predict the characteristics of any individual case even if it doubtless fits a larger category; not all patterns of characteristics will be found in all cases.

In recent times, the major conflicts of the nineteenth century and the two

André Beaufre. The Cold War with its danger of degenerating into a nuclear war produced an expansion of the discipline, with authors like Bernard Brodie, Michael Howard, Raymond Aron, Lucien Poirier, Lawrence Freedman, Colin Gray
, and many others.

Higher education

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

In Nigeria, Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies, Nigerian Defence Academy, University of Ibadan, Covenant University and in the Conflict, Peace and Strategic Studies at Afe Babalola University Nigeria and Nassarawa State University Keffi offers Security and Strategic Studies at Masters and Ph.D. Level. In South Africa, the Faculty of Military Science at the University of Stellenbosch provides a number of courses in strategic studies from the undergraduate to PhD level. The Faculty of Military Science, co-located at the South African Military Academy in Saldanha is also involved in the teaching of the discipline at the South African Defence and War Colleges.

In Europe the subject is taught at the

SciencesPo (in France), University College Cork[5]
(Ireland), University of Warsaw (Poland).

In the Americas it is taught in Chile, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, United States. In Brazil it is taught at the

Universidade Federal Fluminense. In Canada it is taught in University of Calgary and the Royal Military College in Canada
. In Chile, it is taught in the National Academy of Political and Strategic Studies, Ministry of Defense. In the U.S. the subject is taught in many state, private, and military universities, including the
U.S. Naval War College, Marine Corps War College, and the National Defense University
.

In Asia and the Pacific it is also taught in several countries. In Bangladesh it is taught at the national universities, Bangladesh University of Professionals, the National Defense University, and the military academies. In Australia it is taught in the Australian National University. In New Zealand it is taught at Victoria University of Wellington. In Singapore the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. In Malaysia University of Malaya.

In

National Defence University
and Islamia college university Peshawar in Pakistan. Turkish War Academy has also Strategic Research Institute (SAREN) in which the subject is taught at both masters and doctoral levels.

See also

  • U.S. Army Strategist

References

  1. ^ "Strategic Studies". academic.oup.com. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  2. ^ Thomas Otte: “Educating Bellona: Carl von Clausewitz and Military Education”, in G.C. Kennedy & K. Neilson (eds): Military Education: Past, Present and Future (New York: Praeger, 2001).
  3. ^ "M.Litt in Strategic Studies". University of St Andrews. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
  4. ^ "MA in Strategic Studies". Reading University. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  5. ^ "MA in Strategic Studies | University College Cork". University College Cork. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
  6. ^ "PhD in Strategic Studies". Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
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