Tactical Innovation in Warfare

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

This course explores the attributes of tactical innovation in war and crisis. This intellectual landscape emerges from conflict and crisis management studies. Since many crises are rooted in conflict and security challenges, war history serves as a laboratory for expanding understanding. War places a premium on organizational effectiveness, creativity under stress, and adaptation to changing circumstances. All three of those are also the linchpins of “management” in crisis response. Accordingly, this course will focus intently on the dynamics that make innovative adaptation, under pressure, successful.