Zenel Garcia & John Nagl
In 2023, the U.S. Joint Staff directed the war colleges to increase the portion of their curricula devoted to understanding China, to include its “national interests, strategic objectives, and domestic constraints, and grand strategy.” The purpose of this deeper understanding of the Department of Defense’s pacing challenge is to enable students “to develop policies, strategies, forces, and military plans that counter PRC aggression against the United States, its allies, partners, and interests.” The implications of this guidance were clear, the U.S. Army War College (USAWC) had to not just raise general awareness but provide practical—preferably experiential—knowledge that will allow graduates to act in the real world.
The School of Strategic Landpower chose to implement this in phases, beginning with the resident course in the 2023-2024 academic year. The main vehicle for this was a new 10-lesson China Integrated Course (CIC). This year we tested an alternative experiential learning option. Next year, the distance education course will deliver its version of the course. All of these are just the most recent examples of how the USAWC centers warfighting with innovative pedagogies and leveraging academic and practitioner expertise.
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