master programma military strategic studies · 4 dosco mss information2020 14 februari 2020...
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NLDA / FMW
LtCol de Koster
Coordinator MSS
Master programma Military Strategic Studies
LtCol Guus de Koster MA
LtCol Kraesten Arnold MSc
Programme Coordinator
Bgen prof dr Paul Ducheine
Chair Programme Board
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Programme
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1. Opening (de Koster) 18.00 2. Master Programme Headlines (Ducheine) 30’
• Goal and Target Audience • Curriculum and Core Courses
3. Application, Selection & Admission 15’ 4. Track courses & Experiences 45’
• Carlina Gelens, • Floyd van Zoelen, • Charles Goijarts • Literature, Content, Study-load, testing, etc.
5. Questions (all) 15’ 6. Drinks (and more Questions)
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Programme
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1. Opening (de Koster) 18.00 2. Master Programme Headlines (Ducheine) 30’
• Goal and Target Audience • Curriculum and Core Courses
3. Application, Selection & Admission 15’ 4. Track courses & Experiences 45’
• Carlina Gelens, • Floyd van Zoelen, • Charles Goijarts • Literature, Content, Study-load, testing, etc.
5. Questions (all) 15’ 6. Drinks (and more Questions)
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Strategic studies is an interdisciplinary academic field centered on the study of the conduct of war, whether as an independent or a dependent variable. It has often devoted special attention to the relationship between politics, geography and natural resources, economics, and military power, such as the role of intelligence, diplomacy and threats in the preparation and use of force. (wiki)
Strategic Studies Strategic studies is concerned with understanding and
explaining the military dimension of international relations By focusing on the military dimension of international
relations, it concerns itself with the great issues of peace and war
Whether we like it or not …the subect matter of strategic studies shapes our lives (Buzan & Herring, 1994)
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Goal Master Programme MSS
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“Students analyse and reflect on
contemporary strategic challenges and controversies,
fundamental to the use of military force as a
traditional key instrument of power,
from a European perspective.
MSS intends to prepare students for a role in a knowledge‐intensive
Defence related environment, with special attention to the context of military operations.”
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Programme Characteristics: content & organisation
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• Niche in NL academic environment
• Interdisciplinary approach
• Use of the military instrument of power,
• Dominant strategic and operational contexts,
• Actual cases
• Defence planning & management,
• Role and function of Intelligence Organisations,
• Contemporary, European perspective,
• English: literature & assessments
• Demarcation
• 1 to 10 Lecturer-Student Ratio: max 45+5 students (32+13)
• Participation & interaction (military–civil // experience–theory)
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Target Audience
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• Group I: MoD: Ba graduates NLDA (KIM, KMA) • 4 years MoD Experience & Deployment
• +NLD Defence employee
• +NATO-allies (military / civil servant)
• +MFA/MinJus&Sec etc.
• Group II: Civilian students • University Bachelor & Master graduates (other)
• +reservists (including Defensity College)
• NOT: HBO (vocational university of applied sciences)
• Relevant & recent Study & CV
• Security certificate (VGB) / certificate of behavior (VOG)
• Mix (≈45)
• 75% Group I (32)
• 25% Group II (13)
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Programme Characteristics: Architecture
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• 60 ECTS • Courses of 5 ECTS
• 20 compulsory, 20 track, 20 free choice
• Free choice: MSS, assessments, electives, thesis-subject
• Thesis 10.000 -15.000 words 15 ECTS
• Mainly self-study, +/- 60-80 pages per lecture
• Modular (& part-time): • 9+1 week
• 2-3 weeks in between (optional lectures)
• Participation: – 1 day per week on one location (Breda)
– Mandatory presence & preparation-feedback model
– Interaction Group I + II: experience & recent theories
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MANAGING & ORGANISING IN THE MILITARY
WAR STUDIES INTELLIGENCE & SECURITY
Strategic Military Asset Management
International Law of Military Operations
Methods and Analytic Concepts in Intelligence
Leadership and Ethics Insurgency & Counterinsurgency
International Intelligence Cooperation
Strategizing and Organizing Peacekeeping & Statebuilding Intelligence and its Environment
Defence Economics & Performance Management
Coercive diplomacy Intelligence Organizations & their Cultures
Compulsory Core Courses (20 EC)
War & Warfare in the (post)modern World Contemporary Security & Strategy
War, Defence & Society Research Methodology
THESIS (15 EC)
Elective (5 EC)
e.g. Decision-making; Cyber Warfare; Selling War; T&CT
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War and Warfare in the (post)modern world (Osinga)
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Contemporary Security and Strategy
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War Defence and Society (Brinkel e.a.) Week 1 Civil-Military Relations: controlling the military
Week 2 Ethical Considerations and War: just war theory
Week 3 Legal Considerations and War: international law and the law of armed conflict
Week 4 Strategic Cultures 1: the utility of force debate
Week 5 Strategic Cultures 2: cultures compared
Week 6 Drones and Killer Robots: introduction to the debate
Week 7 War and Social media
Week 8 NATO and EU Security and Defence Policy
Week 9 Security and Defence Policy: the case of the Netherlands
Week 10 Assessment
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Research Methods (Klein Goldewijk e.a. )
Week 1 Research Strategies in military studies; the alleged disconnect between academics and military practitioners (implications)
Week 2 4 seminars: how to trigger military research – student presentations
Week 3 Qualitative research methods
Week 4 Quantitative research methods and Integrated research practices, involving field experiments
Week 5 Game theory and network analysis: warfare modelling, network data, and military operations
Week 6 Case studies and comparative methods in the military institution
Week 7 Process tracing and multiple/mixed methods
Week 8 Historical methods for research in military studies: source criticism, battlefield research and memoirs
Week 9 Critical discourse analysis, securitisation, and critical security methods in military settings
Week 10 New data generation and data analysis in conflict studies and peacekeeping integration and conclusion
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Electives 2019-2020
• Decision Making in Crisis and War (Noll & Bijlsma)
• Selling War (Brinkel)
• Cyber Security and Cyber Operations (Ducheine)
• Terrorism and Counterterrorism (Rietjens)
• Other Track Courses (see annual Schedule)
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Rules of the Road
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• Modular programme, BUT: hick-up delay (most likely)
• Participation:
– preparation throughout 1½ years
– hence: absence (>2/9): Board of Examiners
– No Distance-Learning
• Teaching periods:
– 3/year (3*10 weeks)(2-3 weeks in between)
• 2 courses at a time
• Exams: (>7/9 classes taken)
– Hence: 2 exams on Friday week 10, unless essays …..
– Essays: D+9 (additional)
– 2 offered opportunities/year (as scheduled)
• Good manners: i.e. notification of absence, withdrawal
• UK: writing & literature (MSS ≠ language course)
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Time calculation (spouse & 2 kids or single and 3 friends)
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• Normal Week: 168 hours
• Work: --40
• Travel: --10
• Sleeping: --58
• Committed: 108 hours
• Left: 60 hours (eating, sports, TV, www, family, friends)
• MSS Study
• Study load --28 (2*5 EC = 2*5*28 hours/10 weeks)
• class/exam: ++8
• Study 20 hours
• Left over: 40 hours
• 1/3 of family/friends will receive no attention!
• Please check with the 3 students & alumnus
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Graduation 2019
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Programme
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1. Opening (de Koster) 18.00 2. Master Programme Headlines (Ducheine) 30’
• Goal and Target Audience • Curriculum and Core Courses
3. Application, Selection & Admission 15’ 4. Track courses & Experiences 45’
• Carlina Gelens, • Floyd van Zoelen, • Charles Goijarts • Literature, Content, Study-load, testing, etc.
5. Questions (all) 15’ 6. Drinks (and more Questions)
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Application and Selection Criteria
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• 45 positions (3*15 students)
• 75% MoD, 25% Civilian,
• 5 students: overflow
• Admissible selection admission
– Relevant study
– University (WO) Bachelor, or (preferably) Master
– Relevant post-graduate experience
– Grades
– Motivation
– Language skills
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Applicability
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• Applicability: Board of Examiners
• Art. 5 TER (minimal: relevant NLD University Ba or Foreign ~) • MoD: support OPCO
• Language: • art. 7 TER For all (After admission, NLT 1st Exam) • IELTS: level 6.5
• TOEFL PBT (Paper-based): 575
• TOEFL CBT (Computer-based): 232
• TOEFL iBT (Internet-based): 88
• CAE: 58/Grade C
• CPE: 45/below Grade C
• 100% English Ba/Ma (in residence) UK, US etc
• NO exceptions!!!
• Conditional admission
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Selection and Admission
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• Selection: Programme Board • June 2020
• Considerations
• 45 students & max 5 overflow
• Tracks: 3*15 students
• 1st and 2nd Track choice
• Min 8 students (track)
• 75% : 25 % (also overall)
• CV etc
• Matching interview (under consideration)
• Admission: Programma Board • Early July
• Conditional: Language certificate
• Contract & fee: Civilian students etc (Group II)
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Programme
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1. Opening (de Koster) 18.00 2. Master Programme Headlines (Ducheine) 30’
• Goal and Target Audience • Curriculum and Core Courses
3. Application, Selection & Admission 15’ 4. Track courses & Experiences 45’
• Carlina Gelens, • Floyd van Zoelen, • Charles Goijarts • Literature, Content, Study-load, testing, etc.
5. Questions (all) 15’ 6. Drinks (and more Questions)
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NLDA / FMW
LtCol de Koster
Coordinator MSS
War Studies Track
Carlina Gelens
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1. Coercive Diplomacy
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•Changing the behavior of an opponent without resorting to full scale war.
•All wars involve an element of coercion.
•Case studies like Iraq, Iran, Bosnia, Kosovo, Korea, Russia (state and non-state actors)
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2. International Law of Military Operations
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•Ius at Bellum: Legal bases for initiating military operations:
• Consent; UN mandates; Self-defence.
•Ius in Bello: Legal regimes governing the conduct of military operations
• i.e. targeting of persons or objects; Maintenance of law and order and the treatment of persons (IHL).
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3. Paecekeeping and Statebuilding
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•Peacekeeping represents a challenge for the military.
•Political & military debates on current and historical missions.
•Questions like:
•Can democracy be exported?
•Can comprehensive state building be achieved in 'fragile states'?
•How should we evaluate peace operations? etc.
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4. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
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•Case studies - like - NATO experience in Afghanistan.
•Conceptual background of contemporary insurgency and counterinsurgency warfare.
•Evolution and experience in today's operational environments.
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LtCol de Koster
Coordinator MSS
Intelligence and Security Track
Floyd van Zoelen
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Intelligence & Security Courses
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Intelligence Organisations and their Cultures
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Methods and Analytical Concepts in Intelligennce
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Personal Experiences
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NLDA / FMW
LtCol de Koster
Coordinator MSS
Managing and Organising in the Military Track
Maj Charles Goijarts
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Managing and Organising in the Military
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1. Strategizing and Organizing
2. Defence Economics and Performance Management
3. Leadership and Ethics
4. Military Technology Management
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Strategising and Organising
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Defence Economics and Performance Management
• Benefits versus Costs
• Costs as Insurance Premiums
• Allocation of Security Resources
• Burden Sharing Behaviour
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Unique master Programme
Diverse Group
Study Load
Best Day of the Week
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Programme
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1. Opening (de Koster) 18.00 2. Master Programme Headlines (Ducheine) 30’
• Goal and Target Audience • Curriculum and Core Courses
3. Application, Selection & Admission 15’ 4. Track courses & Experiences 45’
• Carlina Gelens, • Floyd van Zoelen, • Wybo Ruedisulj/Charles Goijarts • Literature, Content, Study-load, testing, etc.
5. Questions (all) 15’ 6. Drinks (and more Questions)
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