Staff Rides

Officers and civilians learn about tactical decision-making by visiting past battlefields.  These visits, called staff rides, allow participants to understand important military concepts such as: What constitutes a good decision in battle and war?  Why do many military plans fail?  How should an informed reader learn about battle from eye-witness accounts and reports?  The program will run day-long, weekend-long, and week-long staff rides by arrangement with interested individuals and groups. Contact us for more information, and be sure to mention which staff rides interest you.

Battles and campaigns will include:  

    Ancient Warfare
    Caesar's conquest of Gaul
    Classical Greek warfare
    Frontiers of the Roman Empire
    American Revolutionary War
    Saratoga
    Guilford Courthouse
    American Civil War
    Antietam
    Gettysburg
    Vicksburg
    Spotsylvania
    The Wilderness
    Fredericksburg
    Manassas
    Napoleonic Wars
    Austerlitz
    Jena-Auerstedt
    Waterloo
    Italian Campaigns
    Wars of German Unification
    Bischwiller
    Froesch
    Saarbrucken
    Sedan
    Gravelotte-St. Privat
    World War I
    Somme
    Verdun
    Cambrai
    Ypres
    Gallipoli
    World War II
    France, 1940
    Normandy
    The Battle of the Bulge
    Anzio