Fall FSL CAPT Doug Reckamp Spring FSL Col

Fall FSL: CAPT Doug Reckamp Spring FSL: Col Steve Heffington Course Designed by Dr. Chris Bassford https: //warontherocks. com/2017/07/un-discipline-yourselfreflections-on-ideas-for-a-disordered-world-2/

We explore “generic” nature of strategy by searching the natural world for examples of emergence of behaviors that are "strategic" Block I- broad scientific concepts of chaos, complexity, evolution (multi-level) Block II- other environments that might be analogous to those of the national strategist. Topics • T 1. Intro: Strategy & Nature • T 2. Chaos • T 3. Complexity & Complex Adaptive Systems • T 4. Chaos, Complexity, & History • T 5. Evolution • T 6. Evolution, Humans, & Human Superorganisms • T 7. Decision-Making Theory • T 8. Causation • T 9. The Con • T 10. Religion As a Strategic Environment • T 11. Ant Society As a Strategic Environment • T 12. Conclusions

BOOKS • James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science • Robert Axelrod (with foreword by Richard Dawkins), The Evolution of Cooperation • John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past • David Sloan Wilson, Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion, and the Nature of Society • Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson, Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration • Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder • Glen Harlan Reynolds, The Social Media Upheaval

• Student Presentation (2 -3 Person Team) • Writing: Deliverables • Weekly Blog Discussion • End of Course 3 Page "wrap-up"