The Warfare of to Day

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II TRAINING AN ARMY FOR MODERN WARFARE Lecture Of October 22, 1917 Summary Instruction saves losses and gives victory. ? Definition of instruction. ? To whom it is directed. ? Principles of specialization and of coordination. Part played by the different arms in an army. ? Infantry: the movement and its fire; arms o

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f low and high trajectory; the bayonet; the 37-mm. cannon; the knowledge that an infantryman must possess; courage his essential quality. ?Artillery: its part on the offensive and on the defensive; trench artillery; assaulting artillery; artillery on rapid motor vehicles; field artillery; heavy artillery; high-power artillery. ? The engineers: their instruction as a whole, and the instruction of special units. ? Cavalry: its decreased importance; its use as infantry. ? Aircraft: airplanes for information, for the adjustment of fire, for fighting, for bombing; balloons; dirigibles.? Specialization. ? Coordination. Organization of the instruction of an army. ? The problem of instruction is a permanent one. ? Demonstration of four essential principles governing the organization of instruction. ? Instruction must begin from the top, not from the bottom. Practical organization of the instruction in the French army. ? How the necessity of this organization appeared. ? Schools for officers and schools for specialists. ? Permanence and continuity necessary for schools. ? Army schools: divisional dep6ts and their schools; battalions of instruction and their schools; depOts and camps in the interior. ? Essential function of army schools. ? Choice of the director of instruction of an army and of his collaborators. Organization of the instruction of the American army. ? The American Mission at Paris. ? The French Mission at Harvard University. ? Proposals ma...

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