Università Roma Tre

Program:

- The basic elements of the strategy;
- The French Revolution;
- Napoleon and Jomini;
- Clausewitz and his "Vom Kriege";
- Balances in Central Europe and Prussian strategists;
- The Austro-Prussian War;
- The Schlieffen Plan;
- Naval strategy and balances in the Pacific;
- Roosevelet, Mahan and the Russo-Japanese War;
- The cult of the offensive and the First World War;
- Lightning War;
- Fuller, Lidell Hart and De Gaulle;
- Guderian and the Third Reich;
- Aerial Warfare;
- Douhet, Mitchell, Le May and the development of the Strategic Air Command (SAC);
- Strategy in the Nuclear Age;
- From the Korean War to Vietnam;
- The final phase of the Cold War;
- The People's War;
- The strategy of Mao and Ho Chi Min;
- Che Guevara and General Giap: a comparison;
- Counter-insurgence today;
- Comparing Strategies: Sun-Tzu and Clausewitz;
- The Private Security Firms: the postmodern conflicts;
- The Russian antiballistic system: the case of Gabala Radar Station;
- Security and Strategy, the Caspian Crossroad;
- The Caspian and Energy Security;
- Frozen conflicts;
- Thucydes and Strategic Studies

- von Clausewitz, Karl. "On War";

- Tzu, Sun. "The Art of War";

- Valigi, Marco, ed. Il Caspio: sicurezza, conflitti e risorse energetiche. GLF editori Laterza, 2014;