Lectures on Land Warfare

Lectures on Land Warfare; A
tactical Manual
by Anonymous

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Title: 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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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

London William Clowes and Sons, Ltd. 94 Jermyn Street, S.W.1 1922
First printed March, 1922

{vii}
PREFACE
The Lectures in this volume are based upon the official Text-books
issued by the Imperial General Staff and upon the works of recognised
authorities on the Art of Warfare.
The aim of the Author is to examine the Principles which underlie the
Art of Warfare, and to provide illustrations from Military History of the
successes which have attended knowledge and intelligent application of
Text-book Principles, and of the disasters which have accompanied
ignorance or neglect of the teaching provided by the Text-books. The
"dry bones" of the official publications are clothed with materials
which may be supplemented at will by the student of Military History,
and the Lectures may thus, it is hoped, be of assistance to Infantry
Officers, either in the course of their own studies, or as a convenient
groundwork upon which the instruction of others may be based.
The scope of the work may be gathered from the Table of Contents and
from the Index, and it will be seen that the general Principles
underlying the Art of Warfare are included in the scheme, while
advantage has been taken of the revision of the official Text-books to
incorporate in the Lectures the lessons gained from the experience of
leaders in the Great War.
Upwards of 230 citations are made of "Battle incidents," and, as an
example of the Author's methods, attention may perhaps be directed to
the reinforcement of the Text-book Principle of co-operation and
mutual support by the citation of an instance, on the grand {viii} scale,
by Army Corps (during the First Battle of the Marne), and on the minor
scale, by tanks, bombers, aircraft, and riflemen (during the First Battle
of the Somme); to the successful application of established Principles
by the Advanced Guard Commander at Nachod, and to the neglect of
those Principles by "Jeb" Stuart at Evelington Heights, and by the
Prussian Advanced Guard Commanders in 1870; and to the value of

Musketry Training by instancing the successes achieved at the Heights
of Abraham, at Bunker Hill, Coruña, and at Fredericksburg, which
were repeated during the Retreat from Mons and at the Second Battle of
the Somme.
While every effort has been made to achieve accuracy in citation, and
to avoid ambiguity or error in the enunciation of Principles, the Author
will be very grateful if his readers will notify to him (at the address of
the Publishers) any inaccuracies or omissions which may come under
their notice.
LONDON, March, 1922.

{ix}
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGES
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF BATTLES CITED . . . . . . . . . . . . .
xv-xvii
PUBLICATIONS CITED IN THE LECTURES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
THE ART OF WARFARE . .