| I. Grand Strategies: Their Origins and Their Effects |
| 1 | Course Overview and Introduction to Grand Strategy |
| 2 | Material Influences on Strategy: Geographical Position, National Power and Military Technology |
| 3 | Military Organizations |
| 4 | Nationalism |
| 5 | The International Political System: Constraints, Incentives and Interactions |
| 6 | Historical Case Studies |
| II. Origins of World War I |
| 7 | The Anglo-German Rivalry (Naval and Otherwise) |
| 8 | Grand Strategy and Military Doctrine Among the Pre-WWI Land Powers |
| 9 | The July Crisis, Military Strategy and the Outbreak of the War |
| 10 | The Course and Conduct of WWI |
| III. Origins of World War II |
| 11 | British and German Grand Strategy in the 1930s |
| 12 | French Grand Strategy |
| 13 | Military Doctrine, Land Warfare, and the Crises of the Late 1930s |
| 14 | The Opening Battles of the War |