Despatch-riding, value in instruction--An instance of a scheme--Napoleon’s despatches--Tracking, etc.--Value of maintaining interest--Boy scouts--Influence of regimental _moral_ in detached work--Prisoners--Convoy duty Page 139 CHAPTER XV RAIDS Diverse views of the value of Stuart’s raid--Japanese raid on railway line--Vulnerability of railways--Boer and British Raids--Country which favours raids--Inopportune raids, Wheeler’s--Futile raids by De Wet and Botha-- An exception to them--Mischenko’s raid--Rennenkampf’s reconnaissance--Von Pelet Narbonne--Japanese methods-- Conclusions Page 145 CHAPTER XVI THE TRAINING OF THE CAVALRY OFFICER The cavalry candidate--Causes of scarcity--Work now and thirty years ago--Pay--Duties on joining-- Hunting--The sense of duty--Pretence impossible in a regiment--The effect of a slack commanding officer-- Counteracted by four or five good officers--Value of drill--Characteristic faults--The practice of possible situations in war--Officer without imagination is a bad trainer--Conclusions Page 154 CHAPTER XVII TRAINING OF OFFICER (_continued_) Restless activity--The effect of hardship--Training-- Preparation--Cynicism--Desirability of education for senior officers--A rearguard device--Study and discussion--A doctrine--Napoleon’s doctrine--He honoured bravery--_Bis dot qui cito dat_--The selfish officer--Comradeship--Conclusions Page 167 CHAPTER XVIII TRAINING OF A SQUADRON Frederick the Great’s stern methods--How a good leader is trained--Description of his squadron at work-- Compared with an indifferent leader--Five points in training a squadron: (i.) Efficiency for war of man and horse; (ii.) Avoid samples; (iii.) Use of weapons; (iv.) Self-reliance; (v.) The offensive spirit--The section system--Value of individual instruction--Dismounted work--Holding the balance--Problems as a means of training in resolution--Napoleon’s genius--The Zulu system--Conclusions Page 177 CHAPTER XIX TRAINING OF THE HORSE Value of a well-trained horse on service--Ill-tempered horses--The ideal of training--Seydlitz’s leap-- The mameluke--The aids, how arrived at from nature-- Their adaptation to our needs--Progress towards the campaigning horse--A Boer method--Officers training horses--The wrong leg leading in a race-- The free-jumping lane--Remount competition--Noisy instructors--Method of teaching horses to walk quickly-- Duty of squadron leader--His value if he has ability Page 191 CHAPTER XX TRAINING OF THE MAN