Main goals:

• To become more informed on the strategic thinking that goes into developing plans ( specifically during times of war)
• I hope to gain a foundational understanding of how country’s militaristic strategies have evolved through experience and time.
• To improve not only my research skills but also take this time to learn how to manage and organize such a large-scale project with such a long period of time to be able to work on it.

Timeline:

I plan to spend a “school day” amount of time per day to work on my project. This to do so, I would wake up around 8-9am and work until around 3-4 pm depending on the day.

I also plan to continue after-school activities such as boxing and outside of school art studio time as well.

• April 10-15= websites completed
• April 20-26= first WWII book read
• April 26- May 1= second WWII book read
• May 7= first Vietnam book read
• May 14= second Vietnam book read
• May 20= first GWOT book read
• May 26-27= second GWOT book read
• May 30= begin a research paper 

Documentation:

I plan on writing a research paper to document what I’d learned during the trimester. I think I will spend a few weeks writing the paper and include textual evidence with the sources I’d used as well. Within the paper – I will quantify the costs and casualties of each war. (I’ll convey the evolution from a war of brute force and one main target to a war more focused on communism as a whole, and one today, fought through technology, and cyberterrorism.)

The paper will not only consist of pure data, but it will challenge me to create my own analysis of how our strategies have actually developed over time. In a way, I’d have to become the strategist.