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Small wars : their principles and practice /
Originally published in 1896, Small Wars is an ambitious attempt to analyze and draw lessons from Western experience in fighting campaigns of imperial conquest. For the historian, Small Wars remains a useful and vital analysis of irregular warfare experiences, ranging from Hoche's suppression o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©1996.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Causes of small wars as affecting their conditions
- The objective in small wars
- Difficulties under which the regular forces labour as regards intelligence
- The influence of the question of supply upon small wars and the extent to which it must govern the plan of operations
- Boldness and vigour the essence of effectively conducting such operations
- Tactics favour the regular Army while strategy favours the enemy : therefore the object is to fight, not to manoeuvre
- To avoid desultory warfare the enemy must be brought to battle, and in such manner as to make his defeat decisive
- Division of force, often necessitated by the circumstances, is less objectionable in these campaigns than in regular warfare
- Lines of communications, their liability to attack, the drain they are upon the army, and the circumstances under which they can be dispensed with
- Guerilla warfare in general
- Tactics of defence
- Pursuits and retreats
- The employment of feints to tempt the enemy into action to conceal designs upon the battlefield
- Surprises, raids and ambuscades
- Squares in action on the march and in bivouac
- Hill warfare
- Bush warfare
- Infantry tactics
- Camel corps
- Artillery tactics
- Machine guns
- The service of security
- Night operations.