Ricardo Herrera
US Army War College
Ricardo A. Herrera is Professor of Military History at the US Army War College. He is the author of Feeding Washington’s Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778 (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2021), For Liberty and the Republic: The American Citizen as Soldier, 1775-1861 (New York: New York University Press, 2015), the tentatively titled An American Soldier in Mexico: The Life and Letters of Edward Ashley Bowen Phelps, 1846-1848 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, forthcoming), and of several articles and chapters on US military history. Herrera is a graduate of Marquette University and UCLA. He has also served as an Armor and Cavalry officer in the US Army.
Walking, Talking, Teaching, and Learning: The Staff Ride
Graduate Syllabus
Evolutions of Operational Art
Evolutions of Operational Art (EOA) takes its name and inspiration from the seventeenth-century military concept of evolutions, or practices. It is a focused study of selected campaigns and major operations short of campaigns ranging from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first century. It is a bridge that links many concepts from Theory of Operational Art and US Army and Joint doctrine as it anticipates Strategic Context of Operational Art, Design of Operational Art, and Anticipating the Future. Moreover, several lessons incorporate or suggest events and actions that lend themselves to Morality and War.