The Staff Ride (US Army)

W.G.Ewald

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Staff rides represent a unique and persuasive method of conveying the lessons of the past to the present-day Army leadership for current application. Properly conducted, these exercises bring to life, on the very terrain where historic encounters took place, examples, applicable today as in the past, of leadership, tactics and strategy, communications, use of terrain, and, above all, the psychology of men in battle. This historical study, particularly with personal reconnaissance, offers valuable opportunities to develop professional leadership and the capacity for effective use of combined arms on the air-land battlefield. The Staff Ride provides appropriate guidance for those of us who want to utilize the staff ride to enhance the professionalism of the Army. The participant in a properly conceived and conducted historical staff ride will be rewarded by an enhanced understanding of those key elements and of the essential fact that battles are not systematic, logical undertakings but rather activities of men with all their frailties and strengths.
Combat Studies Institute

[url]http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/download/csipubs/staffride.pdf

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