Forward into Battle Fighting Tactics from Waterloo to the Near Future

by GRIFFIN, PADDY

• ISBN13: 9780891414711
• ISBN10: 0891414711
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-14
• Publisher: Presidio Press

Summary

For the first time in softcover, this is the greatly expanded second edition of Paddy Griffith's challenging work on battlefield tactics. The first edition (1981) took a critical look at the accepted wisdom of historians who interpreted battlefield events primarily by reference to firepower. It showed that Wellington's infantry had won by their mobility rather than their musketry, that the bayonet did not become obsolete in the nineteenth century as is often claimed, and that the tank never supplanted the infantryman in the twentieth. Now, a decade later, the author has been able to fill out many parts of his analysis and has extended it into the near future.

Author Biography

Paddy Griffith is a freelance writer with many military books and articles to his credit. He now writes full-time, having spent the last sixteen years as a senior lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
1808-15: The Alleged Firepower of Wellington's Infantry	p. 12
1815-1915: The Alleged Novelty of the 'Empty Battlefield' in the First World War	p. 50
1916-1945: The Alleged Triumph of Armour over Infantry	p. 95
1965-73: The Alleged Supremacy of Technology in Vietnam	p. 136
The Recent Military Past and some Alternative Future Battle Landscapes	p. 173
Notes	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 206
Appendices	p. 220
Glossary of Abbreviations and Technical Terms	p. 220
Levels of Action	p. 221
Index	p. 222
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