Università Roma Tre

Programma

1st Week – Introduction and Basic Concepts
1. Intro
2. Strategic Studies: Past and Present (I)
Colin Gray, ‘New Directions for Strategic Studies? How can theory help practice?’, in Colin Gray (ed.), Strategy and History: Essays on theory and practice (London: Routledge, 2006).
3. Strategic Studies: Past and Present (II)
Colin Gray, ‘Across the nuclear divide – Strategic Studies, Past and Present’, in Colin Gray (ed.), Strategy and History: Essays on theory and practice (London: Routledge, 2006).

2nd Week – Strategic Studies and the Concept of Strategy
4. Strategic Studies: problems and perspectives
Richard K. Betts, ‘Should Strategic Studies Survive?’, World Politics, 50/1 (Oct., 1997), 7-33.
5. Strategy: problems and perspectives (I)
Richard K. Betts, ‘Is Strategy an Illusion?’, International Security, 25/2 (Fall 2000), 5-29.
6. Strategy: problems and perspectives (II)
Richard K. Betts, ‘Is Strategy an Illusion?’, International Security, 25/2 (Fall 2000), 30-50.

3rd Week – National Strategy
7. The Concept of National Strategy
Hal Brands, The Promise and Pitfalls of Grand Strategy (Carisle: US Army War College, 2012), 1-15.
8. National Strategy: History and Theory
Tami Davis Biddle, Strategy and Grand Strategy: What Students and Practitioners Need to Know (Carisle: US Army War College, 2015), 1-29.
9. National Strategy in the XXth and XXIst Century
Tami Davis Biddle, Strategy and Grand Strategy: What Students and Practitioners Need to Know (Carisle: US Army War College, 2015), 29-38.
4rth Week – Strategy and National Defense
10. The Development of National Strategy(I)
Tami Davis Biddle, Strategy and Grand Strategy: What Students and Practitioners Need to Know (Carisle: US Army War College, 2015), 38-58.
11. The Development of National Strategy (II)
Tami Davis Biddle, Strategy and Grand Strategy: What Students and Practitioners Need to Know (Carisle: US Army War College, 2015), 38-58.
12. Defense and Military Planning
P. H. Liotta and Richmond M. Lloyd, ‘From Here to There: The Strategy and Force Planning Framework’, Naval War College Review, 58/2 (Spring 2005).
5th Week - From Theory to Practice
13. Strategy and National Defense: the Case of Italy
Federica Di Camillo e Lucia Marta, ‘Una Strategia di Sicurezza Nazionale Per l’Italia: Elementi di Analisi’ Quaderni Istituto Affari Internazionali, 34 (2009), 7-23.
14. Strategy and National Defense: the Case of Italy (II)
Federica Di Camillo e Lucia Marta, ‘Una Strategia di Sicurezza Nazionale Per l’Italia: Elementi di Analisi’ Quaderni Istituto Affari Internazionali, 34 (2009), 41-54.
6th Week - The Development of Strategy and Defense Policy in Italy: Il Libro Bianco della Difesa 2015
15. From Strategy to National Defense
Libro Bianco della Difesa 2015, capitoli 1 e 2.
16. Security Policy and Defense in Italy: Implications for the Armed Forces
Libro Bianco della Difesa 2015, capitoli 3 e 4.
17. The Structure and Transformations of Italian Armed Forces
Libro Bianco della Difesa 2015, Capitoli 5 e 6.
7th Week – Il Libro Bianco della Difesa 2015: Analysis
18. Italian Armed Forces: organization and capabilities
Libro Bianco della Difesa 2015, capitoli 7,8, 9.
19. The Trajectory of Italian Defense Policy
Libro Bianco della Difesa 2015, Conclusioni.
20. Il Libro Bianco 2015 An Historical perspective
Andrea Gilli, Alessandro R Ungaro & Alessandro Marrone, ‘The Italian White Paper for International Security and Defence’, The RUSI Journal, 160/6 (2015), 34-41.
8th Week - Revolution in Military Affairs, Network-Centric Warfare e New Operational Concepts
21. The IT Revolution in Military Affairs
Andrea Locatelli, ‘Le false promesse della ‘Rivoluzione negli Affari Militari’, CAEI Papers (2006).
22. Network-Centric Warfare
‘Le nuove esigenze militari e la Network Centric Warfare (NCW)’ in Michele Nones e Alessandro Marrone, La trasformazione delle Forze Armate: il programma Forza NEC (Roma: IAI, 2011), 31-47.
23. ‘Effects-Based’ Operational Concepts
Sara Mariani, Le Effects-Based Operations. Possibili declinazioni in ambito nazionale (Roma: Centro Militare di Studi Strategici, 2006).
9th Week – The Transformation of Italian Armed Forces
24. Alessandro Marrone, Michele Nones e Alessandro R. Ungaro, ‘Le sfide delle capacità netcentriche’, in Alessandro Marrone, Michele Nones e Alessandro R. Ungaro, Innovazione Tecnologica e Difesa: Forza NEC Nel Quadro Euro-Atlantico (Roma: IAI, 2015), 145-156.
25. The Italian Armed Forces and NCW
‘Il Caso Italiano’, in Michele Nones e Alessandro Marrone, La trasformazione delle Forze Armate: il programma Forza NEC (Roma: IAI, 2011), 47-78.
26. Le Forze Armate Italiane a la NCW (II)
‘Il Caso Italiano’, in Michele Nones e Alessandro Marrone, La trasformazione delle Forze Armate: il programma Forza NEC (Roma: IAI, 2011), 79-102.
10th Week
Students' Presentations
11th Week
Students' Presentations (II) and Conclusions

For the presentation students can choose between 3 books:
Jones, Seth, The Rise of European Security Cooperation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Terriff, Terry, Theo Farrell and Frans Osinga (eds.), A Transformation Gap? American Innovations and European Military Change, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010.

Adams, Gordon & Guy Ben-Ari, Transforming European Militaries - Coalition Operations and the Technology Gap, London: Routledge, 2006.

Il materiale didattico indicato nel programma sarà fornito direttamente dal docente.