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Lesson 1: Course Director's Overview - Coggle Diagram
Lesson 1: Course Director's Overview
The 5 C's of Historians
. 1. Causation: Key factors that force events to happen
Change: What is new in our strategic environment and what is similar to eras in the past?
Comparison: Between eras, cultures, and states
Context: Explaining the environment around which an event developed
Contingency: The effects that specific decisions made by specific people have on events; the opposite of inevitability
Must understand the difference between perspective and memory (critical thinking)
Historical mindedness: "the habit of using history within any framework for thinking about strategic issues."
Historical Roots
What is the overall historical context of this strategic issue?
What are the origins and development of the issue?
How did we arrive at this point in time?
Frame the problem and the environment
What is known?
What is unclear?
What are the assumptions of all the actors?
What are their biases?
Understand similarities and differences to historical examples
What options were previously available to decision makers?
Are there appropriate historical analogies?
What are the similarities and differences in the past and current situations?
Frame contextual approaches
What has worked in the past, and importantly, why?
What has not worked, and importantly, why not?