Write a 1,110-1,200 word position paper on Operation Overlord. Critically analyze if Operation Overlord achieved, or failed to achieve, the established national/strategic goals and why. As part of your analysis, briefly assess what lessons can be applied from this historical theater strategy, campaign, or major operation to the current strategic environment of competition, and potential conflict, with China or Russia.
Your analysis should include making a judgment and supporting your argument using historical evidence combined with course concepts. Although a review of key events will likely be necessary to justify your analysis, this paper should not simply be a historical summary. Outlining historical facts like people, places, dates, and actions demonstrate knowledge. This paper requires you to use your judgment by critically analyzing that knowledge.
