Articoli correlati a Small Wars; Their Principles and Practice
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... Desultory warfare. Of U.S. troops against Red Indians, 2. A usual con- sequence of campaigns following on conquest, 7. Years of, in Algeria, 7. Examples of, 27. Fall of Algiers merely prelude to years of, 16. After capture of capital in Zulu and Matabele wars, 16. Conspicuous by its absence in Central Asia, 17. Importance of preventing struggle from degenerating into, 73. Usual cause of operations being prolonged is their having been allowed to drift into, 75. Indefinite operations by regulars bring on, 76. Detached force, forces, column, columns. When several, are to co-operate in a combined attack errors as to time and distance may spoil the plan, 154. Difficulty of manoeuvring, 154. Great point to give each, a cor- rect impulse to start with, 154. Deh Khoja as example of difficulty of controlling, 154, 155. Risk of, firing into each other, 155. Examples of, firing into each other, 155. Dewangniri. The retirement from, as an example of confusion occurring on a night march, 430. Dey. Armies of the, of Algiers, 7. Nature of troops of, 10. Forces of, concentrated to bar line of advance on Algiers, 80. Determined attack of the forces of the, on French at daybreak, 392. Dinapore. Mutineers from, attack Arrah, 60. Defeat of relieving column from, 60. The unsuccessful attempt to relieve Arrah from, as an ex- ample of enemy's disinclination to pursue, 186. The night attack on the relieving column from, 428. Discipline. When regulars operate against forces of inferior, this consti- tutes a small war, 2. Force of, gives regulars advantage on battlefield, 68. Loosening of bonds of, occurs at moments of success among native troops of European countries, 198. The, of regulars enables their com- mander to make feints with great effect, 206....
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