What classes in college could deal with military strategy?

BESIDES military academies. And not ROTC either, I already know about that. What are some classes that could relate with military strategy?What classes in college could deal with military strategy?Classes that require critical thinking. Classes that require to observe, evaluate what you see, and to derive sound conclusions. Classes that present concrete problems and require you to apply hard, fixed, invariable rules to reach discrete solutions.

Those preclude liberal arts stuff like history. They also preclude the social sciences (so-called). They preclude any study that presents problems with multiple solutions, the merits of which can be debated. They preclude any study that is based solely on memory and recall.

The Navy looks favorably on degrees in Math and the "hard sciences" (like physics or chemistry). The military doesn't have a crying need for mathematicians, physicists, or chemists. But it needs leaders who can reason abstractly and who can come up with answers that are not open to debate, but are right (or wrong) based solely on logic applied to the evidence available. It needs leaders who can think outside the box... beyond what they've learned. I don't know what the other branches prefer, but I suspect their interests are similar, and for the same reasons.

Will a branch look at a candidate with a degree in psychology, library science, English, art, political science, or history? I don't know. But while those candidates are playing around with theories and facts and figures they've memorized from texts, the war rages on. The mathematician observes the situation, performs a situational analysis, maybe consults briefly with experts (guys with experience handling the kind of problem he faces), weighs all the data, and makes a decision.

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If you're thinking about classes that'll teach you what to do when, you really don't want them. No two battles are the same. There's no "step-by-step" method of winning... anything. You'll see guys who've become great leaders because they figured out how to get the best out of their men, how to do more with less, how to use what they had to the best advantage, how to figure out their enemy's weakness and how to exploit it. That's what tactics and strategies instruction is supposed to teach.

You'll learn about how a handful of Greeks held off thousands of Persians. If you study what they did, all you're going to know is how to cope with a whole lot of Persians stuck between ocean and mountain armed only with arrows and spears. But if you learn your lesson well, you'll learn that you take into account the lay of the battlefield, the problems of maneuvering a large number of soldiers in a small area without adequate communications (they didn't have very good radios 450 BC). It was a cool story... if that's what your interested in. It was a loss for the Greeks, although the delaying action paved the way for eventual victory. And it tells you exactly what to do if you have a few hundred Greek soldiers being approached down a narrow beach by thousands of Persians... as long as the Persians haven't read the same account of history... if that's what you want.

I've read "Art of War." I had to study some battles. But in the decade in which I was in command of guys in the field, and the years I spent in the Pentagon, I never wondered what Patton or Cornwallis, or Grant, or Eisenhower, or MacArthur would have done in a situation. I figured out what I had to work with and how best to employ those resources.

I think a good strategist or tactician is one who thinks on his feet. A "book" strategist or tactician is of no more use in combat than a "book" officer is in command. A retired Admiral said that the Regs were written for "left-handed swab handles" (feckless fools) who wouldn't know what to do if it wasn't written down for them somewhere. Learn to think. The rest will follow.What classes in college could deal with military strategy?History classes, especially military history from all era's. A lot of emphasis is placed on how past battles were fought. Civil war battles are taught throughout the various levels of officer training. Leadership classes are also a good idea, to include human behavior, psychology, etc.What classes in college could deal with military strategy?Political Science, Economics, Physics, Linguistics, Anthropology, Music,

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