Title: Connect contemporary military strategy, actions, and leaders to historical precedents.
Course: Marine Corps JROTC III (09203) > Section: Applying Knowledge of General Military Subjects

Connection may include the recent strategies pursued in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and the Balkans, and during the Cold War. The strategies may include those of leaders such as the following:

- Alexander the Great
- Chandragupta Maurya
- Hannibal
- Qin Shi Huang
- Julius Cæsar
- Zhuge Liang
- Khalid ibn al-Walid
- Cyrus II
- Napoleon
- Genghis Khan
- Archibald Henderson
- Ulysses S. Grant, Robert Gould Shaw, William Harvey Carney
- Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, William Tecumseh Sherman

Process/Skill Questions:

- How does history apply to the present day?
- How can the strategy of a Civil War general be related to current or recent operations in Iraq?
- Choose a current military leader and compare that leader to a military leader from history. What parallels and major differences do you notice?