Connect contemporary military strategy, actions, and leaders to historical precedents.

Connection may include the recent strategies pursued in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, the Balkans, and during the Cold War.

The strategies may include those of the following leaders:

• Alexander the Great
• Sun Tzu
• Julius Caesar
• Napoleon
• Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, William Tecumseh Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant
• Alfred T. Mahan
• John Paul Jones
• Adm. David Farragut
• Adm. George Dewey
• Capt. James Lawrence
• Adm. Chester Nimitz
• Adm. Hyman G. Rickover

Process/Skill Questions:

• Who has had the most significant influence on military strategy and why?
• What actions/leaders stand out in history as being instrumental in changing the way wars are fought?