General William Tecumseh Sherman's Georgia Campaigns: Lessons Learned for the Operational Commander

Abstract

Between May and December 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman conducted two highly successful campaigns through Georgia, seizing Atlanta and Savannah and inflicting significant damage on Confederate military resources. Sherman's operations were founded in thorough logistics planning, skillful movement and maneuver of a light, mobile force, and bold movement behind enemy lines without a fixed line of communications. This paper will examine and analyze General Sherman's use of operational art, focusing on the operational factors of space, time and force and the operational functions of command and control, logistics, movement and maneuver and protection. The analysis will provide lessons learned for today's operational commander, including applicability to the concept of Operational Maneuver from the Sea (OMFTS).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 18, 2001
Accession Number
ADA393369

Entities

People

  • James P. Davis

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army
  • Battles
  • Civil War
  • Civil War (United States)
  • Command And Control
  • Lessons Learned
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Planning
  • Logistics Support
  • Maneuvers
  • Marine Corps
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • New York
  • Security
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space