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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

LondonWilliam Clowes and Sons, Ltd.94 Jermyn Street, S.W.11922

First printed March, 1922

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PREFACE

The Lectures in this volume are based upon the official Text-booksissued by the Imperial General Staff and upon the works of recognisedauthorities on the Art of Warfare.

The aim of the Author is to examine the Principles which underlie theArt of Warfare, and to provide illustrations from Military History ofthe successes which have attended knowledge and intelligentapplication of Text-book Principles, and of the disasters which haveaccompanied ignorance or neglect of the teaching provided by theText-books. The "dry bones" of the official publications are clothedwith materials which may be supplemented at will by the student ofMilitary History, and the Lectures may thus, it is hoped, be ofassistance to Infantry Officers, either in the course of their ownstudies, or as a convenient groundwork upon which the instruction ofothers may be based.

The scope of the work may be gathered from the Table of Contents andfrom the Index, and it will be seen that the general Principlesunderlying the Art of Warfare are included in the scheme, whileadvantage has been taken of the revision of the official Text-books toincorporate in the Lectures the lessons gained from the experience ofleaders in the Great War.

Upwards of 230 citations are made of "Battle incidents," and, as anexample of the Author's methods, attention may perhaps be directed tothe reinforcement of the Text-book Principle of co-operation and mutualsupport by the citation of an instance, on the grand {viii} scale, byArmy Corps (during the First Battle of the Marne), and on the minorscale, by tanks, bombers, aircraft, and riflemen (during the FirstBattle of the Somme); to the successful application of establishedPrinciples by the Advanced Guard Commander at Nachod, and to theneglect of those Principles by "Jeb" Stuart at Evelington Heights,and by the Prussian Advanced Guard Commanders in 1870; and to the valueof Musketry Training by instancing the successes achieved at theHeights of Abraham, at Bunker Hill, Coruña, and atFredericksburg, which were repeated during the Retreat from Monsand at the Second Bat