Not open to students who elect this as concentration in the MA in Military Studies

Upon completion of this certificate students will be able to:

• Examine the theory and practice of joint warfare in every major conflict since the mid-19th century with special emphasis on American joint warfare in the 1980s and 90s.
• Discern and assess the contemporary factors influencing planning for combined and joint operations at the strategic and operational levels of war.
• Evaluate the doctrinal and technical aspects of Joint Warfare command and control as well as operational differences among the services.
• Debate the varied dimensions of coalition warfare and combined operations in both a historical and contemporary perspective.
• Assess the conventional and unconventional joint warfare of the future in light of technological change and the information age, non-state military threats, rogue regimes, and clashes of culture between regions.

LW574 / MIL 595 - Joint Warfare Theory and Practice
LW620 / MIL 596 - Joint Warfare Planning and Implementation
LW621 / MIL 597- Joint Warfare Command and Control
LW554 / MIL 669 - Coalition Warfare
LC505 / MIL 620 - Studies in Future War