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Topic
History
Subtopic
Civilization
& Culture
Masters of War:
History’s Greatest
Strategic Thinkers
Course
Guidebook
e
Professor Andrew R. Wilson
U.S. Nav
al War
College
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Andrew R. Wilson, Ph.D.
Professor of Strategy and Policy
U.S. Naval War College
rofessor Andrew R. Wilson is Professor
of Strategy and Policy at the U.S. Naval
War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He
received a B.A. in East Asian Studies from the
University of California, Santa Barbara, and earned
a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from
Harvard University. His dissertation involved archival research in mainland
China, Taiwan, and the Philippines and was funded by Foreign Language
and Area Studies Fellowships.
Fluent in modern Mandarin, Professor Wilson also reads classical Chinese.
At the Naval War College, he lectures on Asian military history, the classics
of strategic theory, Chinese military modernization, and Sun Tzu’s
The Art
of War.
During his 15 years in Newport, he has won several awards for
teaching and service. Prior to joining the Naval War College faculty in 1998,
he taught Chinese history at Wellesley College and at Harvard University,
where he was awarded the Derek C. Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate
Student Teaching. He also has taught at Salve Regina University and has
given guest lectures at many other colleges and universities.
Professor Wilson is the author of numerous articles on the Chinese diaspora,
Chinese military history, Chinese sea power, and Sun Tzu’s
The Art of
War.
His books include
Ambition and Identity: Chinese Merchant Elites
in Colonial Manila, 1880–1916; The Chinese in the Caribbean; China’s
Future Nuclear Submarine Force;
and
War, Virtual War, and Society: The
Challenge to Communities.
At present, he is completing a new translation
of Sun Tzu’s
The Art of War
and a maritime history of premodern China. In
addition to his teaching duties, Professor Wilson is a founding member of
Studies Institute.
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Professor Wilson appeared in a documentary on The History Channel and
has been interviewed on National Public Radio. He has lectured on military
history, strategic theory, and international security in nearly two dozen
countries and on six continents. In the United States, he has been invited to
speak at the National War College, the National Defense University, the U.S.
Naval Academy, the Naval Postgraduate School, and the Air War College.
In addition, Professor Wilson has contributed to the curricula of military
colleges in Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Ethiopia, and Uganda.
Professor Wilson’s other Great Course is entitled
The Art of War
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
Professor Biography ............................................................................i
Acknowledgment ............................................................................... vi
Course Scope .....................................................................................1
LECTURE GUIDES
LECTURE 1
Why Strategy Matters .........................................................................4
LECTURE 2
Thucydides on Strategy ....................................................................11
LECTURE 3
Thucydides as a Possession for All Time .........................................19
LECTURE 4
Sun Tzu’s
The Art of War
.................................................................25
LECTURE 5
Sun Tzu through Time ......................................................................32
LECTURE 6
Machiavelli’s
The Art of War
.............................................................39
LECTURE 7
Machiavelli’s
Discourses on Livy
......................................................46
LECTURE 8
The Napoleonic Revolution in War ...................................................53
LECTURE 9
Baron Jomini as a Strategist.............................................................60
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