The Making of a Modern Army and its Operations in the Field A study based on the experience of three years on the French front (1914-1917)

3. The infantry of a division: the front; dispositions taken; storming troops; occupying troops; offensive or defensive engagements; preparation of attacks; prolonged engagement...

=1. General Remarks.= When her dream of a short war which was to realize all her aims of conquest was dissipated, Germany resorted to a policy of occupation in the hope of eithe...

=1. Retrospective view.= _General considerations._ In the French army long before the war, several clear-headed and well-informed men had foreseen the necessity of having a larg...

=1. Its military beginnings, its increasing importance.= At the beginning of the war, Germany alone possessed a military flying corps. She was the only nation who desired war. S...

One might be inclined to believe that, in the present war and since the victory of the Marne, the general rules of strategy and tactics have been modified. Not at all. The ways...

=1. Sketch of the railroad organization.= According to instructions from General Headquarters the services at the rear forward the required ammunition to the “distributing stati...

We have endeavoured to present, without entering into the technical details which are being taught by the officers composing the various Allied missions, a general sketch of the...

=1. Asphyxiating gases.= During the present war Germany has ransacked the arcana of science for the means of destroying her enemies. Those to which she resorted had been forbidd...