17.480 | Spring 2017 | Graduate

Understanding Military Operations

Course Description

This course examines selected past, current, and future sea, air, space, and land battlefields and looks at the interaction in each of these warfare areas between existing military doctrine and weapons, sensors, communications, and information processing technologies. It also explores how technological development, …
This course examines selected past, current, and future sea, air, space, and land battlefields and looks at the interaction in each of these warfare areas between existing military doctrine and weapons, sensors, communications, and information processing technologies. It also explores how technological development, whether innovative or stagnant, is influenced in each warfare area by military doctrine.
Learning Resource Types
Written Assignments
A group of men, each wearing military gear, drive armoured vehicles down a dirt road.
The Armoured Support Group of the Royal Marines trains at Lulworth Range in England. (Image courtesy of Royal Navy Media Archive on flickr. License BY-NC.)