Fighting in woods and forests is a very special form of war.
Avoided by military commanders unless such terrain is to their
advantage, for soldiers forest battles are a chaotic mix of dread,
determination, and, all too often, death. Adversaries remain in
constant fear of concealed ambush, casualties usually must be
abandoned, and prisoners who cannot be guarded are killed.
Heightened fear can lead to excesses. Too often, armies have been
badly prepared and trained for such warfare and have suffered
severely for it. In Warfare in Woods and Forests, noted military
historian Anthony Clayton describes major events in woods and
forest warfare from the first century CE to the 21st. These events
involve Roman soldiers in Germany 2,000 years ago; North Americans
in 18th- and 19th-century conflicts; invaders of Russia in 1812 and
1941; British, French, and Americans in France in 1916 and 1918;
Americans in the Hurtgen Forest in 1944; and modern-day Russian
soldiers in Chechnya."
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