The History and Future of Warfare: Airpower to Artificial Intelligence

Undergraduate

This course explores the history and future of American warfare, focusing on the development of U.S. military strategy and policy since World War I. We discuss how the United States waged war—why the United States got into wars, and how the U.S. extricated itself (or tried to extricate itself) from war. The course also pays close attention to the relationship between war, technology, and state-building in the United States and abroad, as we cover topics such as the history of America’s wars during the twentieth century, political economy of the American military, and the technology of modern warfare, including drone warfare and the role of artificial intelligence in warmaking. By taking an expansive view of American military power, we therefore seek to understand how wartime, as well as “peacetime,” shaped developments in modern warfare shaped the twentieth and twenty—first century, and the wars to come. W 1:30pm-3:25pm