{"product_id":"2940148913641","title":"Atlas of The Sioux Wars","description":"In June 1992, the Combat Studies Institute (CSI) conducted the first Sioux\u003cbr\u003eWars Staff Ride for Brigadier GeneralWilliam M. Steele, Deputy Commandant\u003cbr\u003eof the US Army Command and General Staff College. In September 1992,\u003cbr\u003eDr.William Glenn Robertson, Dr. Jerold E. Brown, MajorWilliam M. Campsey,\u003cbr\u003eand Major Scott R. McMeen published the first edition of the\u003cbr\u003e. Their work represented a modest effort to rectify the omission of\u003cbr\u003ethe Indian Wars in the West Point atlas series by examining the Army’s\u003cbr\u003ecampaigns against the Sioux Indians, one of the greatest Indian tribes of the\u003cbr\u003eAmerican West. The atlas has since served as an educational reference for\u003cbr\u003ehundreds of students of US Army campaigns against the Sioux during the\u003cbr\u003econduct of dozens of Sioux Wars staff rides.\u003cbr\u003eIn 1992, CSI and the authors believed that soldiers serving in the post-Cold\u003cbr\u003eWar Army could easily identify with the situation faced by soldiers of the post-\u003cbr\u003eCivil War Army. In both cases, the most serious threat to the nation’s\u003cbr\u003esecurity had suddenly vanished, and the Army’s very purpose was energetically\u003cbr\u003edebated. Meanwhile, many in political life and in the US Congress saw the\u003cbr\u003echange as an opportunity to reduce funding and other resources for a standing\u003cbr\u003earmy—a longstanding trend in American political life. The Army’s senior\u003cbr\u003eleaders, therefore, coped with the twin problems of mission definition and\u003cbr\u003eDraconian resource constraints. The Army’s junior leaders of that era struggled\u003cbr\u003eto prescribe and execute proper training. Yet, conflict generated by civilian\u003cbr\u003eencroachment on Indian lands as part of America’s rapid Westward expansion\u003cbr\u003eincreasingly dragged the Army into conflict with the Indian tribes.","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108913856752,"sku":"2940148913641","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148913641_p0.jpg?v=1763715915","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148913641","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}