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Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers: An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918Anonymous

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Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers: An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918

Name: Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers: An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918
Author: Anonymous

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Military art and science; Tactics

Reason for Operations by Night (Secrecy; Frederick the Great's
  Coat)--Night Marches (Direction; Protection; Secrecy;
  Connection)--"Rules of Thumb"--Night Advances (Surprise;
  Direction; Position of Deployment; Connection)--Night
  Assaults (First Battle of the Somme; Serre Hill; Vimy Ridge;
  Messines-Wytschaete; Villers Bretonneux; Morlancourt;
  Spottsylvania)--Limitations of Night Assaults--Smoke and its
  advantages and disadvantages--Successful and unsuccessful Night
  Assaults (Rappahannock Station--Peiwar Kotal--Tel-el-Kebir;
  Stormberg; Magersfontein)--Position of Deployment--Distinguishing
  Badges, etc.--Watchword--Precautions against
  Checks--Secrecy--"Rules of Thumb."

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FIGHTING IN CLOSE COUNTRY  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  155-163

  Restrictions on view and on movement--Advantages for Attack
  against Defence--Savage Warfare (Isandhlwana; Rorke's Drift;
  Tofrik; Toski; Teutoberger Wald)--Civilised Warfare (Villages
  and Woods attract troops; Gravelotte; Spicheren; Worth; the
  Wilderness; Sedan; Defence of Bazeilles; Noisseville)--Attack
  on Woods (Tanks; Gauche; Villers Guislain; Messines)--Advancing
  from captured position--Defence of Woods--Fighting
  patrols--Attack on Villages (Tanks; Light Mortars)--Defence
  of Villages (Delaying Action; Providing a "funnel").

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VARIOUS ARMS  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  164-177

  Close combination of all arms required--Infantry (Extent and
  limitations of mobility; the decisive arm in battle; the Rifle
  and Bayonet; the Lewis gun; Ranges of rifles and machine
  guns; Grenades; Hand Grenades; Rifle Grenades; Light
  Mortars; Machine guns)--Mounted Troops (Cavalry; Mounted
  Rifles; Cyclists)--Artillery--Light Artillery (Pack Guns; Pack
  Howitzers; Horse Artillery: Field Guns; Field Howitzers)--Light
  Guns against Aircraft and Tanks--Medium Artillery--(Medium
  Guns; Medium Howitzers)--Heavy Artillery (Heavy Guns;
  Heavy Howitzers)--Super-Heavy Artillery (Super-Heavy
  Guns; Super-Heavy Howitzers)--Table of Artillery Ranges--Mortars
  and Light Mortars--Royal Engineers--Tanks--Aircraft
  (Aeroplanes; Kite Balloons)--Gas--Smoke.

OPERATION ORDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  178-179

  Orders should be written when possible--Should be "fool
  proof"--Ambiguity to be avoided--The enemy are . . . My
  intention is . . . You will--Initiative not to be hampered.

INDEX  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  181-189




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