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Our department’s coursework is designed to sharpen your analytical and critical thinking skills while deepening your understanding of the relationship between war’s purpose, objective, and means.Strategy and Policy takes an interdisciplinary approach to teaching the development of military strategy and national security policy, drawing on history, political science, international relations, and economics—and blending these academic areas with critical military factors, such as doctrine, weaponry, training, technology, and logistics.

Provides Iconic Lectures on Viking Cruises, focusing on the historical background of the destinations and shore excursions featured on each cruise. Conducts small seminar sessions on topics of focused interest pertaining to each cruise as well. Lectures have included:History of FranceThe Roman EmpireThe Italian RenaissanceVenetian RepublicGreek CivilizationThe Ottoman EmpireThe History of SpainHistory of the Austro-Hungarian EmpireThe Age of OarsGreek PhilosophyThe Italian WarsHannibal: History's Greatest General?

Author of "The Ethiopian-Adal War, 1529-1543: The Conquest of Abyssinia."In 1529, an army from the Sultanate of Adal in modern-day Somalia invaded neighboring Ethiopia. For the next fourteen years, the conflict ravaged Ethiopia, planting the seeds of enmity and mistrust in the Horn of Africa that resonate to this day. The Ethiopian-Adal War: The Conquest of Abyssinia brings sixteenth-century Arab, Portuguese, and Ethiopian primary source material from this conflict to contemporary readers for the first time in any language in a single volume.

Peace is the Mission; Strategy is the MeansIn order for the United States to anticipate and influence future events, both domestic and international, it is necessary for its military personnel to approach tactical and strategic planning from a proactive rather than reactive point of view. Norwich University’s online Master of Arts in Strategic Studies program is designed for current and former military personnel of all uniformed branches and is intended to expand upon students’ educational and military experience with challenging graduate-level courses that focus on ends, ways and means as well as the challenges of nesting supporting objectives.Coursework equips you with the skills and knowledge necessary to undertake the evolving mission of the United States military, as well as to collaborate with agencies outside the Department of Defense on matters of national security. Under the tutelage of skilled faculty, you can use our flexible online platform to explore the unique relationship between politics and national power, from the application of democracy to the threatened use of military action and beyond. The program culminates in a capstone project designed to help you synthesize the principles and objectives of the program and apply your theoretical and methodological skills to real-world affairs.

The Ph.D. in Humanities Program at Salve Regina University is dedicated to aninvestigation of what it means to be human in an age of advanced technology.Students combine core humanities courses with individualized concentrations toaccomplish this goal. Courses in philosophy, ethics, religion, art, literature,technology, and history provide the interdisciplinary framework for examining thisenormously important question.A dynamic, interdisciplinary approach to the humanities, the Ph.D. offers thehumanities as a foundation for understanding a world of accelerating and complexchange. Cultivating expertise in traditional humanities fields and building skills ascontemporary interdisciplinary scholars, students pursue doctoral research thatmakes a difference; bridging disciplines and exploring questions of humanmeaning in a dynamic study of the past, present, and future. The Humanities Ph.D.at Salve Regina University was inaugurated in 1989 as an interdisciplinaryinvestigation of the question, “What does it mean to be human in an age ofadvanced technology?” In one form or another, this question still commandsattention in the 21st century. Broadly conceived, the human-technologyrelationship remains at the heart of the curriculum, allowing students to drawinsights and integrate knowledge from a variety of fields.

Responsible for managing all security assistance programs between the US and Japan, programs worth over one billion dollars. Regularly worked with numerous US and Japanese defense contractors as well as the US State Department and Department of Commerce.