This week's audio guidance (Week 4) discusses and clarifies:
Weekly summaries. Please use these to understand major points for the week, to examine areas you may be stronger or weaker on, and to gauge your research skills.
Midterm Quiz. I have provided an ungraded, practice, and voluntary Midterm quiz in the Tests and Quizzes are of the course. Please use it as a self check. Again, this is for your benefit and is voluntary.
Forum for the week: The Soviet Threat. Military studies versus military history. Remember, this course is a military studies course (in contrast to military history); we seek to understand the present, the dynamics, nature, and characteristics of our subjects in the present, and use the past toward this end.
Thus we need to examine elements of strategy, tactics, and operations in our Forum that are not bound by history, but remain viable in the present. My point is that the strategies and tactics of the Soviet era have not vanished with the demise of the USSR in 1991. They are used by other states and non state actors today.