NS435

Required for all senior Naval ROTC Marine Option Midshipmen. This course analyzes the United States Marine Corps as the overarching case study for the advent of maneuver warfare based upon historic events and doctrine. Students learn the characteristics, requirements, and problems on maneuver warfare. The study of history is not simply to learn from the past, but as practitioners of maneuver warfare, to use the lessons of the past as the basis for making practical judgments for the present and future. Maneuver warfare is merely a subset of warfare in general; it exhibits certain unique characteristics within the broader field. The required case studies focus in the overall concepts of warfare itself. 3 Lecture hours. Prerequisite: NS 331.