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STP TLOs and ELOs Terminal Learning Objective (TLO) – the main overarching goals of a less or course that define the final performance outcome a learner should be able to achieve.

Enabling Learning Objective (ELO) – smaller, specific, and measurable steps that support and build up to the TLO. They break outcomes down into manageable components of knowledge or skills that must be mastered first.

STP TLOs:

Graduates possess the ability to anticipate and adapt to current and future strategic challenges, in order to better inform and assist military and civilian decision-making at all levels, by being:

· Educated in strategic thinking, warfighting, and interagency strategic decision making;

· Equipped with advanced cognitive and analytical skills necessary to engage civilian and military leaders on the development and conduct of strategy and operations in the broader context of national policy objectives;

· Prepared to occupy demanding appointments as strategic thinkers and advisors in the Office of the Secretary of War, the Joint Staff, a Combatant Commander’s staff, a four-star headquarters, the Department of State, and/or other federal agencies;

· Able to think and communicate both clearly and precisely in terms of making strategic assessments and communicating their ideas and intent.

STP ELOs:

Through the STP academic/Socratic model, students explore the relationship between politics, economics, diplomacy, and a range of historical and contemporary military operations, from hybrid warfare by small, non-state groups to threatened nuclear war through:

1. Mastering the specialized theoretical and integrated learning processes in war and strategy, joint/combined and coalition operations and command and leadership;

1. Investigating, analyzing, and critiquing complex scholarly works and primary source documents relevant to strategy and war in the 20th and early 21st centuries;

1. Learning how to assess, reassess, synthesize, and adapt to changing strategic, military, and policy conditions;

1. Synthesizing complex theories relating to the conduct of war, strategy and joint/combined and coalition military operations;

1. Designing, evaluating, and analyzing developments in war, strategy, and joint/combined and coalition military operations, and command and leadership;

1. Justifying and interpreting theoretical propositions, methodologies, and conclusions in war, strategy, and joint/combined and coalition military operations, and command and leadership; and

1. Generating and evaluating complex ideas to practical problems in a contemporary setting and exercise judgment in strategic and policy contexts.

Through Experiential War gaming, students examine historical and contemporary decision-making to gain a better understanding of how strategy and operations have evolved and how levels of warfare are linked by:

· Conducting strategic assessments;

· Developing a theory of victory; and

· Executing a war plan.

Through the staff ride exercise, students focus on leadership and decision-making that have applications beyond the field of strategic studies, by:

· Traveling to specific locations to examine historic battles, campaigns, and occasionally, entire wars;

· Engaging in a deeper and richer understanding of history and how it affects the present and future promulgation of war.

Elective Courses should be related to the history of war, national security, or strategic studies. They may also relate to economics, analytics, regional environments, diplomacy and applying theory to real-world problems, as these topics reflect directly on the STP learning objectives.