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CTNSP staff are encouraged to
teach courses and sponsor research at NDU and other academic
institutions. The following are elective courses offered by
the Center for students attending the National War College
and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Click on the
course titles for more information.
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The National
Defense University |
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NDU 6001: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR NATIONAL
SECURITY
This course will focus on key technologies and
scientific research that will shape military operations
in the coming decades. Technologies covered will
include topics such as robotics and unmanned vehicles,
biotechnology and bio-inspired innovation, nanotechnology,
advanced sensors, nuclear and conventional explosives
detection, directed energy, and information systems.
The topic of the potential impact on DOD of developments
in energy technology will be discussed. The course
will also discuss how some of the major military
technologies of the past (e.g. radar and solid
state electronics) came to be. The course will
be taught by experienced scientists and engineers
working at NDU’s Center for Technology and
National Security Policy as well as by external
experts. Students will visit sites in the area
such as the Naval Research Laboratory. Those enrolled
in the course will be asked to prepare a presentation
on one area of technology and the implications
of that technology area for national security. |
NDU
6002: INNOVATION IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING NATIONAL
SECURITY ENVIRONMENT
The course examines the role of innovation across
the National Security community, including government,
military, public and private partners. The emphasis
is on future approaches and their effects on the
changing national security environment. Topics
include transformation as a component of the US
national security strategy, as well as “bottom
up” changes in response to specific military
needs. The focus is on approaches to, and opportunities
for, transformation, consolidation, or triage
and the resulting impacts on the individual services,
joint planning, and relationships with allies
and partners, including civil-military organizations.
The innovation needed to face near-peer competitors
will be contrasted with that needed for stabilization
and reconstruction, counterinsurgency, and related
operations. The course will explore not only the
opportunities provided by cutting edge technologies
and new concepts of organization, but also the
need to relate transformation to fundamental aspects
of human nature and to implement changes across
the full spectrum of people, processes and resources.
The course will use lectures, outside guest speakers
(including from the Office of the Secretary of
Defense), and seminar discussions. Students are
required to prepare a short analytical paper and
a ten-minute presentation on a key aspect of transformation. |
NDU
6004: REBUILDING WAR-TORN COUNTRIES
With the change in the strategic environment
following the end of the Cold War, the United
States has participated more frequently politically,
financially, and militarily in aiding failed/failing
states. The United States conducts operations
to prevent, contain, or resolve regional conflicts
that threaten its national interests. U.S. participation,
however, is not limited to military deployment,
but includes the diplomatic, economic, and informational
instruments of national power as well. In the
current war on terrorism, mitigating the threats
that failed states present will continue to play
an important role in U.S. policy. The Bush administration
has recognized that to defeat international terrorism,
we must defeat its political and economic roots
through military engagement, political development
and economic investment. These operations have
evolved over the last 50 years in response to
changes in the nature of conflict from that of
interstate wars to intrastate conflicts. Traditional
peacekeeping, therefore, has given way to more
complex, multidimensional missions that combine
enforcement actions with rebuilding activities.
Often, these operations take place in conjunction
with humanitarian emergencies and integrate a
multitude of civilian players from international
and regional organizations, nongovernmental organizations,
and the U.S. interagency community. Establishing
and maintaining peace, the goal of any peace operation,
requires more than the military creating a safe
and secure environment. It also requires civil
and political institutions that respect good governance
and human rights, justice and reconciliation,
economic and social well-being, and the rule of
law. To achieve these challenging goals, military
and civilian organizations must cooperate and
coordinate effectively. This course will examine
the roles of the United Nations, the United States,
and nongovernmental organizations in regenerating
war-torn societies—from peacekeeping to
civil society development and institution-building
to good governance cultivation. The focus is on
developing a framework for analyzing the U.S’s
approach to and participation in dealing with
failed/failing states. Building on a foundation
provided in the first two lessons, the course
will analyze the sources of failure in states,
the nature of international intervention, and
civil-military coordination. A discussion of the
challenges of post-conflict reconstruction will
highlight the difficult, but fundamentally interdependent,
relationships among the military, political, humanitarian,
and economic developmental aspects of capacity
building in war-torn nations. Ethical and legal
issues in this regard will also be examined. The
class will conclude with a simulation requiring
students to apply lessons learned in class. |
NDU
6007: BUILDING A MILITARY-CIVILIAN PARTNERSHIP
FOR COMPLEX OPERATIONS
This course focuses on the evolution of efforts
to create and institutionalize a “whole
of government” plus private sector approach
to new strategic challenges, including stability
operations, counterinsurgency, and the global
war on terror. What initiatives have the civilian
agencies and Congress taken to promote a true
military-civilian-private sector approach to complex
operations and what more needs to be done? The
course will examine how the various agencies within
the U.S. government, especially the Department
of State and the Agency for International Development,
as well as the Departments of Justice, Commerce,
Agriculture, Treasury, Transportation, Homeland
Security, Energy, and others are attempting to
build capacity for a National Security Strategy
that is formed around a triad of defense, diplomacy
and development. What role should the private
sector play across the triad? How should civilian
agencies contribute to complex operations, and
what resources and authorities do they need? How
can the operational and planning capabilities
of the civilian agencies be improved and how should
they coordinate with the military? With respect
to the military, what type of force structure,
doctrine, and training are necessary for stability
operations and counterinsurgency? How should military
and civilian teams plan and train together? The
course will look at civil-military cooperation,
command and control, and staffing issues in conducting
complex operations. It will examine Provincial
Reconstruction Teams in Iraq and Afghanistan and
compare them to past wartime civil-military endeavors,
such as the CORDS program in Vietnam. It will
examine recent initiatives to promote civil-military
cooperation, such as AFRICOM, efforts by U.S.
Southern Command, and the State Department’s
Interagency Management System. The course will
also review the role of the private sector in
complex operations, with a specific focus on the
management and oversight of private contractors.
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NDU
6011: CONTINUNITY AND DISCONTINUITY IN NATIONAL
SECURITY AFFAIRS
The convergence of several major global trends
will make the U.S. national security environment
even more complex in the years ahead. Moreover,
these complexities include the prospects of discontinuous
"Shocks," either as a product of the
trends, or through completely unforeseen events.
Agile organizations and adaptive leaders will
become increasingly important. In many cases,
decisions to counter or mitigate the effects of
the trends must be taken decades in advance to
be effective, often on the basis of ambiguous
evidence. This course will examine six major,
interwoven, trends that are being addressed in
the "Trends and Shocks" project sponsored
by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
(Policy): Science and Technology; Demographics;
Environment and Energy; Economics; Identity, Culture
and Governance; and Nature of Conflict. Some aspects
of long-term problem anticipation and decision-making
will be examined. The course also will examine
how other nations are analyzing the trends from
their perspectives. Each class will consist of
a mix of presentation and discussion. Guest lecturers
will be invited as appropriate. Students will
be expected to participate actively in class and
produce a paper of approximately ten pages by
the eleventh class period. The last class will
be spent discussing the papers. Class participation
and the paper will be weighted equally. |
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