War in the Modern World
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
<p>Dive into military history and strategy with this 24-episode course focused on the geopolitical conflicts, weapons, strategies, and personalities that have defined war since 1945.</p>
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Afghanistan and the Nature of Modern War
- 02: Nightmare Scenarios of Modern War
- 03: The Tools of Modern Warfare
- 04: From World War to Cold War
- 05: Europe’s Exit from Colonial Asia
- 06: China’s Civil War
- 07: The Unfinished Korean War
- 08: Britain’s Exit from Palestine, Malaya, and Kenya
- 09: France’s Vietnam War
- 10: Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
- 11: The Arab-Israeli Wars: Israel’s String of Triumphs
- 12: The Arab-Israeli Wars: Victory without Peace
- 13: India-Pakistan: The Enduring Rivalry
- 14: The World War That Never Happened
- 15: America’s Vietnam War
- 16: The Soviet War in Afghanistan
- 17: Latin America’s Revolutionary Wars
- 18: The War for the Falklands
- 19: Africa’s Modern World War: Rwanda and Congo
- 20: The Iraq-Iran War
- 21: Desert Storm: The US versus Iraq
- 22: Yugoslavia’s Civil Wars
- 23: A New Russian Empire?
- 24: Iraq and ISIS in the War on Terror
Taught by
David R. Stone
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