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Civil War Strategy

Written by: Christian B. Keller
  • Summary

  • This series will provide useful, pragmatic history from America’s greatest trauma that people from all walks of life, backgrounds, and professions might find helpful. You may be surprised just how much we can learn from the Civil War that can assist us in making sense of our lives today! As I tell my students, get ready for a wild and thought-provoking ride that will inform, challenge preconceived notions, and offer insights into understanding all sorts of issues and realities that affect us on a regular basis. If you’re looking for partisan, agenda-ridden discussion, this podcast is not for you. If, on the other hand, you’re fascinated to learn more, stick with me! You’ll be glad you did.
    2022
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Episodes
  • 7: Chancellorsville: A Campaign of Strategic Contingency
    Apr 11 2023

     In this second installment of our series on the campaigns of the Eastern Theater with significant strategic impact, we'll take a close look at Robert E. Lee's surprising victory at Chancellorsville. How did an operation with great potential for the Union morph into one of the Confederacy's greatest triumphs? What, exactly, did the loss of Stonewall Jackson mean for the fate of the rebellion?

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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • 6: The Theater Strategy and Execution of the Pennsylvania Campaign
    Oct 17 2022

    This is the first in a series of episodes concentrating on the most strategically significant campaigns of the Eastern Theater of the war.

    In this podcast, we take a close look at the Union and Confederate ends, ways, and means in the climactic campaign of summer 1863 that culminated at Gettysburg. We will learn that sometimes strong strategies are undercut by weak execution and the intrusion of fog and friction.

    Connect with Christian Keller 

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/drchriskeller/

    http://christianbkeller.com/

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • 5: The Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi Theater - Strategic Highlights
    Oct 11 2022

    This is the third in a series of three episodes concentrating on the strategic-level characteristics, geography, and personalities of the three major theaters of war.

    In this podcast, we examine the Trans-Mississippi Theater in light of these considerations and briefly discuss its most important campaigns, with a focus on Missouri, Arkansas, and the Indian Territory, where some of the most decisive events in the theater occurred.

    Connect with Christian Keller 

    https://www.linkedin.com/in/drchriskeller/

    http://christianbkeller.com/

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    44 mins

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