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About SARA
From September 2012 through August 2013, I attended the University of Aberdeen as a postgraduate candidate in Strategic Studies. When I arrived, I told people that my goal was to get better at chess, but I actually assumed that "strategic studies" equated to "war studies," a program that's offered at Kings College London. Yes, there's plenty of overlap, but strategic studies developed as an academic discipline during the Cold War, and was developed from an existing corpus of classical scholarship with the goal of informing the new debate among nuclear strategists who were charged with preventing a cataclysmic global confrontation. To that end, in contrast to war studies, strategic studies focuses on the intersection between statecraft - primarily the use of armed military force, but also other aspects of national power - and politics.
With this in mind, both before and after my time in Aberdeen, I've collected a variety of materials on strategy, foreign affairs, and general military topics. These range from classics (Clausewitz, Machiavelli, Thucydides, et cetera), to military doctrine, to military resources on physical fitness and nutrition. These now comprise the corpus of materials available in SARA.
In time, I'd like to improve upon the current materials by adding a weekly news digest, book reviews, and maybe some additional, time-based materials. More shall come, so check back.
As noted above, this section is likely to expand in scope as I have time.
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