MSL4810

1. Identify how the American profession of arms developed from a "dual military tradition" reflecting the often ambiguous relationship between American ideals and interests.

2. Evaluate military leadership at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels of war.

3. Identify how the (extended) Industrial Revolution transformed the ways in which the United States and other societies organized armed violence to pursue their interests.

4. Integrate basic knowledge of military history into your education as a future officer.

5. Recognize the enduring tension between the Army's professional conception of itself as a warfighting organization and its routine deployment for the expansion of American frontiers, ideals, and institutions.