"A Long and Obstinate Resistance: Staff Ride Handbook for the Charleston Campaign is the latest handbook in the Army University Press Staff Ride Handbook series. This third staff ride book written by Army historian Allen Skinner studies the pivotal struggle between the British Empire and breakaway American colonies for control of South Carolina. Analysis focuses first on the thwarted 1776 British attack on Charleston then follows with a detailed study of the 1780 siege of Charleston, which ended in the largest British victory of the Revolutionary War. Unlike many other staff rides, this handbook focuses principally on the strategic and operational levels of war, analyzing the linkage between operational level plans and tactical actions and providing leader development opportunities for all levels. Designed for a two-day training event, the book is written so a unit can conduct a fulfilling one-day staff ride with insights at all levels of war. In planning a staff ride of the Charleston campaign, unit commanders will find many relevant issues to study, including planning and execution of Joint and Combined operations, civil-military relations, logistics, intelligence, campaign planning, and mission command"-- Provided by publisher.

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