Course consist of 27 hours of joint and multinational instruction in nine meetings. Building on C500 and C300, A531 is a study of concepts, principles, and actions that constitute the operational level of war. Focus is on (1) principles and relationships of and between the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of war; and (2) concepts and elements of operational design, operational functions, and campaign planning. The course consists of a lesson that focuses on operational warfighting doctrine and a series of student-presented case studies that examine historical applications of operational warfighting.^ Course materials consist of: Advance book.