Tactics and duties for trench fighting

These phases are the same as those in open ground warfare, but their importance, aspect, and order are not the same. Especially the preparation of a trench attack is such a prep...

=Definition.= The Plan of Defense contains all the different duties necessary to make a proper defense of the position. The execution of these duties is the execution of the Pla...

=Surprise Attacks.= These may be raids or local attacks. A raid is usually for the purpose of taking prisoners; and a local attack, to capture a part of the line. These operatio...

=General Use of Fortifications.= The first use of fortifications, whether hasty or permanent, is to give shelter against hostile fire. The more deliberate use of fortifications...

The exigencies of modern warfare, especially of trench warfare, have developed new infantry weapons. As there are several kinds of these weapons to each infantry company, the me...

4. =Disposition for the Attack.= Companies in assaulting line—companies in support—apportionment of objectives to companies—distance between assaulting and supporting companies—...

The object of a raid is to attack a special point in the hostile lines, destroy it, and return with prisoners or information. Such a point may be a salient, blockhouse, observat...

An =Interior Relief= is one where a small unit, such as a company, battalion, or regiment, is relieved from its area by another unit of the same division within the position.

=Phases=—Preparation—Assault against First Hostile Line— Exploitation of Success—=Preparation=—Front of Attack— =Conditions of Assault=—Distance of—Trace of Lines of Departure—...

=Hostile Attacks=—Kinds—=Surprise=—Precautions against—Maintenance of Barbed Wire Entanglements—Service of Guard and Observation— “Stand To” Exercises—=Attack in Force=—Revealin...

=General Use of Fortifications=—Change from Battle Lines to Trenches of a Position—=Division of a Position=—Different Lines of a Sector—=Principles of Organization=—Flanking Fir...

=Plan of Defense=—Definition—Principles—Form of—=Details of Trench Duty=—Guard Duties—Sentinels—Reconnoitering Patrols—Observers— Attrition—Fighting Patrols and Raids—Arms, Equi...

=Specialists=—Organization of a Typical Company—=Use of Specialists=—In the Defensive—In the Offensive—=Formations=— Initial Formation—Close Order and March Formation—Approach M...

=Definitions and Principles=—Kinds—=Preliminary Dispositions for the Relief=—Time to Prepare—Preparation—Reconnaissance—=Relief Orders=—General—Battalion—=Movement of the Relief...