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URL:https://harrisburgcwrt.org/events/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-me
 diocre-leadership-in-the-battle-of-south-mountain/
SUMMARY:A Comparative Analysis of Meade and Lee's Commanding Machines at Ge
 ttysburg
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, January 24\, as Army War College Pro
 fessor Dr. Douglas G. Douds analyzes the differences between the “comman
 ding machines” of Meade’s Army of the Potomac and Lee’s Army of Nort
 hern Virginia during the Battle of Gettysburg.\nStaff work is one of the l
 east studied aspects of the Civil War.&nbsp\; Army leadership is a collect
 ive activity.&nbsp\; At Gettysburg\, Meade and Lee employed commanding mac
 hines -- senior subordinate commanders and staff officers -- to lead their
  armies.&nbsp\; Dr. Douds will compare their commanding machines’ struct
 ure and processes\, giving insights to the battle’s outcome.&nbsp\; His 
 stimulating talk on this topic was one of the highlights of the 2003 Sacre
 d Trust lectures in Gettysburg.&nbsp\; In the fall of 2023\, he defended a
  doctoral dissertation at Leeds University in England on a comparative cas
 e study of field army command at Gettysburg.&nbsp\;\nDr. Douds is a retire
 d Marine Colonel and a Licensed Battlefield Guide at Gettysburg.&nbsp\; &n
 bsp\;He serves as Director of the Advanced Strategic Arts Program and Expe
 ditionary Warfare in the Army War College’s Department of Military Strat
 egy\, Planning and Operations.&nbsp\; He has served as a strategist and se
 nior speechwriter in the Chairman's Action Group on the Joint Chiefs of St
 aff. &nbsp\;He commanded a Marine fighter attack squadron in Iraq prior to
  earning his master's degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War C
 ollege in 2010.&nbsp\; As an F/A-18 pilot\, he deployed multiple times\, i
 ncluding two carrier deployments to the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf
  and a western Pacific deployment.&nbsp\; He completed the Marine Aviation
  Weapons and Tactics Instructor's course\, the Navy Fighter Weapons School
  (Top Gun)\, was the top honor graduate from the Amphibious Warfare School
 \, and received two bachelor of arts degrees\, in political science and hi
 story\, from Wake Forest University.\nThose who are unable to attend this 
 engagement in person are invited to tune in to the lecture and Q&amp\;A se
 ssion via Zoom.&nbsp\; Click on the following link https://us02web.zoom.us
 /j/85922691729 .&nbsp\; No password in required.&nbsp\; To dial in by phon
 e\, call 1-301-715-8592 or click on the following link: https://us02web.zo
 om.us/u/k12XfsYCq.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;The meeting ID # is 859 2269 1729.&nbsp\; 
 Zoom participants should join the meeting by 7:00 pm.\n
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LOCATION:Central Penn College Conference Center\, 600 Valley Road\, Enola\,
  PA\, United States
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