Course entails a survey of influential thinkers on the subject of war from classical commentators such as Sun Tsu and Thucydides to modern writers such as Mao and Bernard Brodie. The meetings are conducted in a seminar format and great emphasis is placed on participatory discussion. Course materials include: Syllabus; Modern warfare a French view of counterinsurgency by Roger Trinquier; The future of war in its technical, economic and political relations by Jean de Bloch [CSI reprint]; Selected military writings of Giulio Douhet; Selected military writings of Mao Tse-Tung; Lectures on F.S.R. III (operations between mechanized forces) by Major General J.F.C. Fuller; Armament and its future use by B.H. Liddell Hart; Selected military writings of B.H. Liddell Hart and Giulio Douhet; The future of war.