Future scope in Strategic studies
1. Objectives
Strategic
studies is an interdisciplinary academic field centered on the study of conflict and peace strategies, often devoting special attention to the
relationship between international politics, geostrategy, international diplomacy, international economics, and military
power. In the
scope of the studies are also subjects such as the role of intelligence, diplomacy, and international cooperation for
security and defense. The subject is normally taught at the post-graduate academic or professional, usually
strategic-political and strategic-military levels.
The
academic foundations of the
subject began with classic texts initially from the Orient such as Sun
Tzu’s Art
of War and went
on to gain a European focus with Clausewitz’s On War. Like Clausewitz, many academics in this
field reject monocausal theories and hypotheses that reduce the study of
conflict to one independent variable and one dependent variable. Already in the
late eighteenth century, a colourful mathematician named Dietrich Heinrich von
Bülow attempted to establish mathematical formulae for the conduct of war. Carl
von Clausewitz rejected Bülow’s approach and his popular claim that warfare
could be reduced to positivist, teachable principles of war. Instead of
formulae, we find Clausewitz stressing, time and again, that the whole purpose
of educating the military commander is not to give him a series of answers for
the task he will face (the complexities of which cannot be foreseen), but to
educate him about different aspects of what will face him so as to let him
evaluate the situation for himself, and develop his own strategy.[1] Strategic thinkers on the whole will search
for recurrent patterns, which in themselves cannot predict the characteristics
of any individual case even if it doubtless fits a larger category; not all
patterns of characteristics will be found in all cases.
In recent
times, the major conflicts of the nineteenth century and the two World
Wars have
spurred strategic thinkers such as Mahan, Corbett, Giulio
Douhet, Liddell
Hart and,
later, André
Beaufre. The
Cold War with its danger of degenerating into a nuclear war produced an
expansion of the discipline, with authors like Bernard Brodie, Michael Howard, Raymond
Aron, Lucien
Poirier, Lawrence
Freedman, Colin
Gray, and
many others.
2. Introduction
The Great strategic thinker Chanakya, Sun Tzu mentioning the
strategic thoughts for Kingdom management.
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4. Attempt following multiple choice questions:
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