Overlord, Cobra, and the Battle of the Bulge: Joint & Combined Operations Staff Ride

(1 Credit Hour) · Undergraduate

This course is intended as the ISS crosslist for the HIST 35751 summer course and experiential learning program, which we aim to develop in partnership with the US Military Academy, explores operations and strategy during the final sixteen months of the Second World War in Europe. Tracing the key strategic, operational, and tactical decisions from Normandy through the Battle of the Bulge, students will actively participate throughout the program through the course’s staff ride component. The summer course itself will proceed in three parts: pre-staff ride preparations and group integration, where students will begin work on their role assignments for the staff ride, completed preparatory reading, and spend time getting to know one another before the staff ride itself begins. The second portion will consist of the staff ride itself, beginning on June 21 in London and concluding in Belgium on June 30. The final portion of the trip will involve reflection and a writing assignment following the experiential learning component’s completion.