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. A decade later, the author has been able to fill out
many parts of his analysis and has extended it into the near
future. The Napoleonic section includes an analysis of firepower
and fortification, notably at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815.
Additional discussions of the tactics of the American Civil War
have been included. The evolution of small-unit tactics in the
First World War is next considered, then the problem of making an
armored breakthrough in the Second World War. Following is a
discussion of the limitations of both the helicopter and firepower
in Vietnam. The author points to some of the lessons learned by the
U.S. military and the doctrine which resulted from that experience.
Concluding is a glimpse at the strangely empty battlefield
landscape that might be expected in any future high technology
conflict.
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