Learning Objective 10.1: Discuss strategy as it concerns U.S. foreign policy and policy-making.

Web Resources

• What’s ahead for the army?
  
  • Summary: Looking into the Pentagon’s 2012 plans for the Middle East and the defense budget.

• Foreign assistance and the Pentagon
  
  • Summary: A summarization on the spending of international assistance money.

• Who was Capt. Alfred Mahan?
  
  • Summary: State Department article on the works of the president of the United States War College, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan.

• Obama’s Grand Strategies
  
  • Summary: An article questioning the war strategies of President Barack Obama during the Libyan crisis.

• Gen. Petraeus’s strategy
  
  • Summary: An article questioning the United States’ future military strategies following the Iraq War.

• Territorial claims in the South China Sea
  
  • Summary: Maps detailing territorial claims in the South China Sea.

• Coercive diplomacy
  
  • Summary: The Obama administration’s strategy on Pakistan.

• Iran’s nuclear aspirations
  
  • Summary: A timeline of the United States relations with Iran.

• Foreign media reaction to Senate rejection of CTBT
  
  • Summary: An article questioning if the United States is headed towards a policy of isolationism.

 

Learning Objective 10.2: Explain different rationales that justify the use of force.

Video

• Panetta on cyberattacks
  
  • Summary: Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta speaks in 2012 on the possibility of a future cyber-terrorist attack on the United States that could be the largest in history.

Web Resources

• Powell Doctrine
  
  • Summary: An article on the end of the Powell Doctrine, which were guidelines for the use of American military force.

• Oklahoma City attack
  
  • Summary: A slideshow on the Oklahoma City Bombing.

• Just wars
  
  • Summary: An article debating whether a war is just or unjust.

 

Learning Objective 10.3: Describe the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. foreign policy strategy.

Web Resources

• Missile defense and the 2012 presidential campaign
  
  • Summary: An article on the impact of missile defense on the 2012 presidential race.

 

Learning Objective 10.4: Summarize the ideologies and institutions involved in combatting terrorism.

Video

• Asymmetric Warfare Group
  
  • Summary: A video on the Asymmetric Warfare Group including interviews with retired army personnel on the group's operations.

Web Resources

• Cost of 9/11 attacks
  
  • Summary: The cost 9/11 had on the US is analyzed, including the costs of subsequent wars and the impact on the economy.

• Strategic culture
  
  • Summary: A report on the strategy culture of the United States Military prepared for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

• Libraries and the USA PATRIOT Act
  
  • Summary: An article on Librarians opposition to the Patriot Act.