Understanding Military Operations
MIT OpenCourseWare presents this examination of sea, air, space, and land battlefields across past, current, and hypothetical future conflicts. The course studies how military doctrine interacts with weapons systems, sensors, communications, and information processing technologies in each warfare domain, and how technological change, whether rapid innovation or stagnation, reshapes or is constrained by existing doctrine. Materials include the full MIT syllabus, readings, and assignments from the course as taught on campus, freely available for self-study. The approach is comparative, weighing historical case studies against emerging technologies to ask how armed forces adapt their operating concepts when the tools of war change faster, or slower, than the doctrine governing their use.