Doctrine and Experience: Using Aristotle, Clausewitz, and Callwell to Teach Counterinsurgency

Abstract

This pedagogical paper explores how I use Aristotle’s Nicomedian Ethics as the foundation for an upper level undergraduate seminar on military ethics and strategy in counterinsurgency warfare. The class links Aristotlean ethics to the historical conduct of Small Wars as developed in Clausewitz and C.E Callwell. In addition, students study and evaluate the contrast between this humanities-centered approach and that of the social sciences of modern counterinsurgency doctrine.

Presenters

Frederick Dotolo

Carolyn Vacca
Chair/Assoc Professor, History, St. John Fisher College

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Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Humanities Education

KEYWORDS

Pedagogy Small Wars

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