MILS521 D001 Sum 12's official Podcast.: Recent Episodes

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Hello Class,

Please download and listen to this week's podcast on:

1. Need to apply course lessons.

2. Extra credit

3. Feedback on assignments.

4. Questions and concerns.

**The transcript for this podcast is in the Resources area of this class.

Have a great week.

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Please listen to this introduction podcast.

Also, all podcasts and videos will have a transcript found in the Resources link of this course, under the folder: "Transcripts."

thank you.

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The main points of this Week 2 podcast includes:

Main Points:

1. Formulating and understanding of strategy
2. Weekly summaries: look them over
3. Multi dimensional study: make sure to review, complete the weekly work, and look ahead to anticipate themes and assignments and make them fit into the current week.

*Please note the transcript for this podcast can be found in the Transcript folder of the Resources link

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Please see this week's podcast emphasizing.

1. Study ahead.
2. Study in multiple directions
3. Chat Room Exercise: The Vietnam War

**NOTE the correct time for the chat room is 8:00 pm. not 7 pm. this Thursday.

Thank you.

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This week's podcast discusses:

1. Welcome to the class
2. Our interesting subject that stresses practical applications.
3. Familiarizing yourself with the course and Sakai system. 4 Study and work through the course in multiple directions: past, present, future.
4. Communication: Podcasts, Emails; Forums; Assignments;
5. This week's assignment: Introductory post; First post: the Ancients.

Welcome.

Please note the transcript to this message is attached to the Resources area under the folder: "Transcripts."

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This week's subject is nuclear weapons, and the Hezbollah War, 2006.

Please note.

1. Review past information.
2. Work ahead and on time, making sure you complete current and past assignments, and prepare for final assignments.
3. Feel free to contact me with your questions.

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This week's podcasts notes the following: 1. Be sure to work ahead and use the extra time this week to make progress on the research paper, and final essay.

1. Please listen to the podcast in order to gain a basic understanding of the Weinberger doctrine.

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This week's audio message notes:

1. Use time wisely: work ahead and work on major assignments.

2. Work multidimensionally: look back and review; look ahead to understand major themes; read outside readings.

3. Chat Room exercise: Be sure to join this week's chat room exercise on How to Win the Vietnam War.

4. Extra credit blogs; Don't forget the blog is open to give your thoughts on strategy around the globe, and how to address strategy in the real world context of insurgency and unrest.

5. Web resources: The Web Resources link in your class offers valuable resources for your papers, forums, and learning in general.

Looking forward to this interesting week on the Vietnam War

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Week4:

1. Weekly Summaries: Please be sure to read over and examine/study the Weekly summaries to see areas where you may need improvement.

2. Midterm optional quiz. Use this midterm quiz to see if you are gleaning the key points of this course. Again, this quiz is completely optional.

3. Cold War strategy and tactics. Our subject this week is not just historical, but a lesson in strategy, tactics, and operations relevant to the COE (Contemporary Operational Environment).

Again, thank you for your efforts and insights thus far.

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MILS521:

1. Continue to build your Forum skills: research answers; solid support; strong lead sentences in paragraphs; ability to identify and articulate key points and issues.

*This week on World War II

Forum: Discuss the relationship between the strategic and operational levels of war in World War II. (This is a very broad question allowing the student much flexibility.)

1. Review and study: Please review materials and look ahead to the themes of upcoming weeks.

2. Discipline: Work ahead is better than playing catch up.

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This week's Audio Message underscores:

1. Developing an understanding of the key elements of strategy. PowerPoint on the subject will be sent to your email accounts.
2. Weekly Summaries. Use the weekly summaries for study, review, and self check on your Forum postings.
3. Planning: make sure to review, and to look ahead to future assignments, and not just proceed chronologically.
4. Contact. Feel free to contact me with your course questions and concerns.

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Welcome to the Course!

1. Familiarize yourself with the course: Syllabus, Assignments, and Forums, etc.
2. Importance of Forums

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Please note this week.

1. Take Home Essay: Due on Sunday, NLT 2330hrs
2. Graded papers; Will be completed soon.
3. Review. Please take the time to review the weekly summaries.
4. Extra Credit Chat Room: I will offer EC on the issue of a rising China, but will solicit participants first. If we have enough volunteers for this, we can have the EC Chat. The EC will be 10 points for the Forum grades.

Thank you for a productive semester, and for studying a topic that can be challenging.

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This week's podcasts highlights the following:

1. Review: Please continue to review all course material in order to maximize your learning.

2. Research paper: All papers will be vetted through the Turnitin anti plagiarism software.

3. Subject for this week: This week we will examine the strategic environment of the modern nuclear age, and particularly the 2006 Lebanon War, as an example of one aspect of asymmetrical warfare.

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This week's audio guidance discusses the historical and geo-political context of the Weinberger Doctrine.

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This audio guidance underscores the following points for the week:

1. Work ahead: Be sure to work ahead, get a jump on major assignments. These 8 week courses move quickly so discipline and pacing oneself is essential.
2. multidirectional study: Reviewing past exercises and weeks, looking ahead to future course objectives, and reading additional materials area all important for learning.
3. Chat Room/Extra Credit: Thursday at 700pm EST: Winning the Vietnam War! Join this chat room session, which will is voluntary.
4. Resources added: Please note that a tab for Strategy Resources has been added to the course. This link offers primary sources, excellent articles, and background materials on our subject.

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This week's audio guidance (Week 4) discusses and clarifies:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

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This audio is provided as guidance for week 2.

Please review it in order to prepare for this week's objectives and assignments, and to better understand this course in general.

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This audio provides a welcome and orientation to the course.

Please download and listen to it, and review it as necessary.