Bio
Andrew C. Winner is Adjunct Professor of Strategic Studies at SAIS Europe
Professor, Strategic and Operational Research Department, US Naval War College
Andrew C. Winner is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. He held the position of Chair of the Strategic and Operational Research Department, at the Naval War College (2013-2019). His areas of focus are South Asia, counterproliferation, European security, the Indian Ocean, maritime partnerships, and maritime strategy. He is director of the Indian Ocean Studies Group at the Naval War College. In June 2007, he was awarded the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his work on the Navy’s new maritime strategy. Prior to his current appointment, he was a senior staff member at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis. Prior to joining the Institute, he held positions at the U.S. Department of State on the staff of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs and in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs where he worked on nonproliferation, security in the Persian Gulf, NATO enlargement, arms transfer policy, and security assistance. He also worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense on conventional arms control. He holds a PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park, an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and an A.B. from Hamilton College.
Courses
- Strategy and Policy (virtual)
This course is an introduction to strategic studies, which deals with the preparation and use of military power to serve the ends of politics. Although the treatment is topical (meaning with classes and readings covering current-day issues), two themes run throughout: (1) the nature of war based largely, but not exclusively, on Carl von Clausewitz's On War and (2) the evolution of warfare from the late nineteenth century to the present. There are no prerequisites for this course; nevertheless, students will require a basic grasp of 20th and 21st century history. This course is NOT just for Security, Strategy, and Statecraft focus area students in the MAIR program. It provides a great way for all students to learn about how military force is thought about and used.
The course is divided into three main parts: an introductory discussion of strategic theory, focused on Clausewitz and other major theorists and their theories of war; an examination of mass warfare that emerged in the nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century; and an examination of challenges that have emerged to that paradigm since World War II.
The course is taught through a combination of discussion and lecture. By the course’s conclusion, students will understand the theory and history of strategic studies and will be equipped to apply that knowledge to the major dilemmas animating international security affairs today.