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Passing It On - Fighting the Pashtun on Afghanistan's Frontier (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Passing It On - Fighting the Pashtun on Afghanistan's Frontier (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Loot Price R596
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A Republished and Annotated Edition of "Passing It On: Short Talks
on Tribal Fighting on the North-West Frontier of India" with new a
Forward and Lessons Learned. Republished by the Foreign Military
Studies Office, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Illustrated. From the
foreword: "This book, originally published as a guide for British
lieutenants and captains, demonstrates that improvements in
technology-much of it available to both sides - have had only a
modest impact on infantry fighting in this rugged terrain. However,
it also demonstrates that the key to enhancing basic infantry
effectiveness is using the terrain effectively, maintaining force
security and understanding the mountain people. General Sir Andrew
Skeen spent decades dealing with this frontier. His combat
experience in the Afghanistan frontier region was extensive, but he
also saw action against the Boxers in China, in Somaliland,
Gallipoli and the trenches of the Western Front in World War I. His
final field posting was as the Chief of the General Staff of the
Army of India. "Passing it on" is about passing on his experience
in this turbulent region to the lieutenants and captains who were
then dealing with the problems of mountain combat against Pushtun
tribesmen. His advice is still relevant to what our soldiers are
facing today. The mission of the Foreign Military Studies Office is
to esearch and present foreign ideas and perspectives to better
understand present and future problems. Occasionally we visit the
past to find those ideas and perspectives. This 1932 book is not so
much a step backwards as the (re)discovery of a useful map for now
and the future. We hope it will be of value to our readers."
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