Staff Ride Handbook and Atlas for the Battle of White Bird Canyon, 17 June 1877 by Charles D. Collins Jr. ISBN 9781940804019, 1940804019 instant download

Staff Ride Handbook and Atlas for the Battle of White Bird Canyon, 17 June 1877 by Charles D. Collins Jr. ISBN 9781940804019, 1940804019 instant download

Staff rides represent a unique and persuasive method of conveying the lessons of the past to the present-day. Properly conducted, these exercises bring to life, on the very terrain where historic encounters took place, timeless examples of leadership, tactics and strategy, communications, the use of terrain, and the human dimension of combat.
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White Bird Canyon is the first of CSI’s 12 staff ride handbooks to combine the traditional handbook format with the format of CSI’s Atlas of the Sioux Wars (2006) and The Cheyenne Wars Atlas (2010). This new volume details the tragic road to war between the US Army and the Nez Perce Indians, and analyzes the Army’s disastrous first engagement in the war. This staff ride focuses primarily on the tactical level of war. However, it also provides significant room for discussion of Army values, cultural awareness concerns, operational issues, and training requirements, making this staff ride a superb tool for developing Army leaders from platoon to division level.
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White Bird Canyon is also CSI’s fifth work pertaining to the US Army’s post-Civil War Indian campaign experience. Together with CSI’s previous atlases, The Ute Campaign of 1879 (1993), and In Search of an Elusive Enemy: The Victorio Campaign (2004), CSI continues to offer historically-based analyses of discrete events during the latter part of the 19th Century that offer relevant insights to current and future Army leaders.