8 episodes
Civil War Strategy Christian B. Keller
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4.7 • 26 Ratings
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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.
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7: Chancellorsville: A Campaign of Strategic Contingency
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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http://christianbkeller.com/
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6: The Theater Strategy and Execution of the Pennsylvania Campaign
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.
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5: The Civil War in the Trans-Mississippi Theater - Strategic Highlights
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.
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4: The Civil War in the Western Theater - Strategic Highlights
This is the second 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 Western Theater in light of these considerations and briefly discuss its most important campaigns, with a focus on Tennessee, Georgia, and Vicksburg, where some of the most decisive events in the entire conflict occurred.
Connect with Christian Keller
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3: The Civil War in the Eastern Theater - Strategic Highlights
This is the first 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 Eastern Theater in light of these considerations and briefly discuss its most important campaigns, with a focus on Virginia--termed "the cockpit of the war."
Connect with Christian Keller
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The Strategic Background - Why the Civil War Occurred
Why the American Civil War occurred has been the subject of much debate and thousands of books since the guns fell silent in 1865. In this episode, we will decomplicate the complex political, social, and economic background behind the coming of the war, discuss these factors in common-sense terms, and offer a few thoughts about the phenomenon of war causation.
Truth in disclosure: this is necessarily a longer discussion, so sit back, relax, and enjoy!
Connect with Christian Keller
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drchriskeller/
http://christianbkeller.com/
Customer Reviews
Highly recommend
Unique and fascinating find in Apple Podcasts! I love how in-depth this goes and the way everything is explained. But the main point of this review is to say please update!!!
A+ podcast
Found this podcast by chance during a search for ACW psid casts and have been blown away with the depth of Dr Kelley’s analysis. What a find. Please continue the series.
Well worth it if you want to understand the Civil War “Big Picture”
I found this podcast by chance while looking for different Civil War podcasts to try. I’ve always tended to study the “tactical” side of the war, but this podcast that discusses the overall strategies of both Union and Confederate sides is absolutely great.
Anybody who teaches at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania is worth giving a try. This guy teaches top military and civilian leaders about such topics. Yeah, I definitely wanted to hear this one.
While he is discussing the “big picture”, it helps if you’re already fairly well versed with the campaigns and battles. You won’t be getting first-hand battle accounts. However, the presenter ties together all the “ways, ends, means” and “risks” that Union and Conferate sides had to handle in this war in a way that makes you see the overall picture more clearly. I’m well versed in the battles and details, but this podcast has informed me and made me more capable of understanding why things happened the way they did.
The segment he does about the causes of the war are, in my opinion, one of the best, clearest, and logical of explanations I remember encountering. This scholar just uses clear facts, causes, events, etc. to dispassionately clarify the lead up to the Civil War.
I am listening to the rest as they come out and I find them to be really insightful, informative, and interesting. I won’t be thinking the same way about the Civil War after this podcast - and he’s only getting started.
He always ends with a “So What?” comment about how the topic he’s discussed may have practical applications on many levels.
I hope this gentleman can churn out this stuff on a fair schedule. I’ll be listening to every one from here on out.
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