Lectures on Land Warfare | Page 5

(Dec. 24, 1901) 138
------ The Yalu (May 1, 1904) 117-118

The Great War
Battle of Le Gateau (Aug. 1914) 126 ------ River Gette (Aug. 1914) 91
Condé-Mons-Binche (Aug. 22-23, 1914) 87 Battle of Charleroi (Aug.
23, 1914) 88 ------ Baccarat (Aug. 25, 1914) 28 Retreat from Mons
(Aug. 1914) 19, 38, 87-88, 90, 96, 127, 165
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First Battle of the Marne (Sept. 1914) 27-29, 36-37, 52, 108 First Battle
of Ypres (Oct. 20-Nov. 20, 1914) 19, 20, 41-42, 88 Second Battle of
Ypres (April 22-May 18, 1915) 20, 42, 176 Defence of Verdun
(Feb.-Aug. 1916) 7, 16 Battle of Ypres Salient (March 2, 1916) 39 First
Battle of the Somme (July 1-Nov. 18, 1916) 7, 13, 22, 37, 42, 53, 148,
171, 175, 176-177 Battle of Serre Hill (Feb. 10-11, 1917) 148-149
------ Messines (June 7, 1917) 20, 149, 160 Chemin des Dames
(April-July, 1917) 16 Battle of Vimy (April 9, 1917) 149 ------ Arras
(April 9-June 7, 1917) 170 Monchy le Preux (April 14, 1917) 75 Third
Battle of Ypres (Sept. 26, 1917) 42-43, 139 Battle of Broenbeek (Oct. 9,
1917) 139 First Battle of Cambrai (Nov. 20, 1917) 7, 30, 42, 66, 75,
160 The Piave Line (Italy) (Nov. 25, 1917) 7 Second Battle of the
Somme (March 21-April 11, 1918) 20, 34, 43, 52-53, 56, 66, 75, 77, 78,
95, 96, 126-127, 174 Battle of Villers-Brétonneux (April 24-25, 1918)
149 ------ Morlancourt (June 10, 1918) 149 Second Battle of the Marne
(July 18, 1918) 49 Battle of Amiens (Aug. 8-13, 1918) 21, 66 ------
Bapaume (Aug. 21-Sept. 1, 1918) 21 ------ Havrincourt and Epehy
(Sept. 12-18, 1918) 21 Second Battle of Cambrai (Sept. 27-Oct. 5, 1918)
21, 170 Battle of Flanders (Sept. 28-Oct. 14, 1918) 21 Second Battle of
Le Cateau (Oct. 6-12, 1918) 21, 66, 96 Battle of the Selle (Oct. 17-25,
1918) 21 ------ Sambre (Nov. 1-11, 1918) 21, 65, 67 Armistice Day
(Nov. 11, 1918) 65, 169
Mesopotamia
Battle of Ramadie (Sept. 27-29, 1917) 64 ------ Bagdadieh (March 26,
1918) 64-65
North Russia

Archangel Province (Aug.-Sept. 1918) 66-67

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PUBLICATIONS CITED IN THE LECTURES
"Field Service Regulations," Parts I. and II.
"Infantry Training," Parts I. and II.
CLERY, Major-General Sir C. F., K.C.B.: "Minor Tactics."
CREASY, Sir Edward: "Fifteen Decisive Battles at the World."
FOCH, Maréchal Ferdinand: "Principles of War."
FRENCH OF YPRES, Field-Marshal Earl, K.P.: "1914."
GRANT, General Ulysses S., United States Army: "Memoirs."
HAIG OF BEMERSYDE, Field-Marshal Earl, K.T.: "Sir D. Haig's
Dispatches."
HAKING, Lieut.-General Sir R. C. B., G.B.E.: "Staff Bides, etc."
HAMLEY, General Sir E. B., K.C.B.: "Operations of War."
HENDERSON, Colonel G. F. R., C.B.: "Stonewall Jackson." "The
Science of War."
NAPIER, Sir William Francis Patrick, K.C.B.; "History of the
Peninsular War."
"OLE LUK-OIE." See SWINTON.
SWINTON, Major-General E. D., C.B.: "The Green Curve."
TAYLOR, General R., Confederate States Army: "Destruction and

Reconstruction."

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LECTURES ON LAND WARFARE
THE ART OF WARFARE
"The Art of War, like every other art, possesses its theory, its principles;
otherwise, it would not be an art."--MARSHAL FOCH.
The Art of War, like any other art, is based upon certain fixed
principles, and there is no short cut which hurries the student to his goal.
The long and laborious line of study is the only safe way, and there are
many pitfalls to be avoided on the road. One of these pitfalls is dug by
those who maintain, whenever a new war breaks out, that all previous
warlike knowledge must be thrown on the scrap-heap and attention
paid only to the problems of the hour. Another is the alluring trap that
Warfare is "merely a matter of common sense"; and a third is the
oft-expressed idea that knowledge is required of the General, and that
compliance with orders is sufficient for the Subaltern Officer.
KNOWLEDGE OF PRINCIPLES ESSENTIAL.--With regard to the
first of these difficulties, the opinions of recognised authorities on the
Art of Warfare may be consulted. "The cardinal principles on which the
art of war is based are few and unchangeable, resembling in this the
code of morality; but their application varies with the theatre of the war,
the genius and temper of the people engaged, and the kind of arms
employed" (General R. Taylor, C.S. Army). "Although the manifold
inventions of modern times have given to warfare {2} a wider scope
and fresh materials, it remains obedient to the same laws as in the past;
but it applies these laws with means more numerous, more powerful,
and more delicate" (Marshal Foch). "This war has given us no new
principles; but different mechanical appliances--and in particular the
rapid improvement and multiplication of aeroplanes, the use of
immense numbers of machine guns and Lewis guns, the employment of

vast quantities of barbed wire as effective obstacles, the enormous
expansion of artillery, and the