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Relation of the Three Arms We shall only speak of the three principal arms: Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery. We must be excused for making the following analysis which belongs more to tactics, but …
Order of Battle of an Army The order of battle is that division and formation of the different arms into separate parts or sections of the whole Army, and that form of general position or disposition…
General Disposition of an Army Between the moment of the first assembling of military forces, and that of the solution arrived at maturity when strategy has brought the army to the decisive point, an…
Advanced Guard and Out-Posts These two bodies belong to that class of subjects into which both the tactical and strategic threads run simultaneously. On the one hand we must reckon them amongst those…
Mode of Action of Advanced Corps We have just seen how the security of the army is expected, from the effect which an advanced guard and flank corps produce on an advancing enemy. Such corps are alwa…
Camps We are now considering the three situations of an army outside of the combat only strategically, that is, so far as they are conditioned by place, time, and the number of the effective force. A…
Marches Marches are a mere passage from one position to another under two primary conditions. The first is the due care of the troops, so that no forces shall be squandered uselessly when they might…
Marches ( Continued ) Respecting the length of a march and the time it requires, it is natural for us to depend on the general results of experience. For our modern armies it has long been settled t…
Marches ( continued ) We have now to consider the destructive influence which marches have upon an army. It is so great that it may be regarded as an active principle of destruction, just as much as …
Cantonments In the modern system of war cantonments have become again indispensable, because neither tents nor a complete military train make an army independent of them. Huts and open-air camps (biv…
