Staff Rides

Guides and articles

Main sources of information, including guides:

• Combat Studies Institute Press
• Center of Military History
• History Department at USMA
• Battlefield Staff Ride Locations in the United States. Provided by TRADOC. (In Texas: Fannin, Goliad, Palo Alto, Sabine Pass, San Jacinto, The Alamo)
• The Institute of Military History has published a Bibliography related to the Staff Ride. (dated 2006)

  [The following documents are included as hand outs with the Training Support Package for TRADOC Common Core Task Number 155-397-0010]

• The Staff Ride by William G. Robertson.
• Study Guide for the Staff Ride Methodology
• The Staff Ride Returns to Leavenworth, W.G. Robertson.
• What the Staff Ride Can Depict: Face of Battle, Clash of Wills and Arms, Generalship, and Cause and Effect.
• Using the Staff Ride for Battalion Training
• Using the Staff Ride to Train Junior Leaders at West Point
• Studying the Anatomy of a Peacetime Contingency Operation: A Staff Ride of Operation JUST CAUSE
• Adapting the Staff Ride at the 143d Transportation Command for U.S. Army Reserve Troop Program Units
• A Staff Ride at the Joint Readiness Training Center

Individual Staff Rides

• The Cowpens Staff Ride and Battlefield Tour, LTC J. Moncure. CSI, CGSC, 1996. (200+ page pdf), also see the HTML version.
• Battle of Tippecanoe. "To Compel with Force: A Staff Ride Handbook. MAJ H.D. Tunnell IV. CSI, CGSC, 1998. [pdf 178 pgs]

• U.S. Military Academy Department of History - includes many photos of rides taken by the cadets. Some useful supporting information.
  • Normandy
  • Germany Attacks
  • Antietam
  • Red River Campaign
  • Saratoga

• Command and General Staff college, Combined Arms Research Library:
  Contains several full-text Staff Ride handbooks. Including:
  • Overland Campaign
  • Antietam
  • Shilo
  • Perryville
  • Lewis and clark
  • Vicksburg
  • Tippecanoe
  • Cowpens
  • Wilson's Creek
  • Chickamauga

• Center of Military History, Staff Rides: (also Check to see if any more have been added recently)
  • Staff Ride Guide to Battle of Ball's Bluff, Ted Ballard
  • Battle of New Market, Joseph W.A. Whitehorne, 1988.
  • Battle of Cedar Creek, Joseph W.A. Whitehorne, 1992.
  • Battle of Second Manassas, Joseph W.A. Whitehorne, 1990.
  • Kasserine Pass Battles

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Military Science, Army ROTC, Staff Rides:
  • Lexington and Concord
  • Breed's Hill/bunker Hill
  • Saratoga
  • Monmouth

[NOTE: THE MHI IS NOW THE "US ARMY HERITAGE AND EDUCATION CENTER", and the listed documents have not yet been found on their website.]