Tag: small unit combat effectiveness

  • Small Unit Combat Reconsidered (and Analyzed)

    Speaking of stumbling, I came across a very interesting study on Civil War small unit combat effectiveness by Mark C. Barloon that I haven’t seen cited before. In this Ph.D. thesis Barloon attempts to use various types of statistical analysis to draw some conclusions about regimental-level combat performance. Here’s the abstract: Historians often emphasize the […]