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Doctrine and Reform in the British Cavalry 1880-1918 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Doctrine and Reform in the British Cavalry 1880-1918 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Routledge Studies in First World War History
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A prevalent view among historians is that both horsed cavalry and
the cavalry charge became obviously obsolete in the second half of
the nineteenth century in the face of increased infantry and
artillery firepower, and that officers of the cavalry clung to both
for reasons of prestige and stupidity. It is this view, commonly
held but rarely supported by sustained research, that this book
challenges. It shows that the achievements of British and Empire
cavalry in the First World War, although controversial, are
sufficient to contradict the argument that belief in the cavalry
was evidence of military incompetence. It offers a case study of
how in reality a practical military doctrine for the cavalry was
developed and modified over several decades, influenced by wider
defence plans and spending, by the experience of combat, by Army
politics, and by the rivalries of senior officers. Debate as to how
the cavalry was to adjust its tactics in the face of increased
infantry and artillery firepower began in the mid nineteenth
century, when the increasing size of armies meant a greater need
for mobile troops. The cavalry problem was how to deal with a gap
in the evolution of warfare between the mass armies of the later
nineteenth century and the motorised firepower of the mid twentieth
century, an issue that is closely connected with the origins of the
deadlock on the Western Front. Tracing this debate, this book shows
how, despite serious attempts to 'learn from history', both
European-style wars and colonial wars produced ambiguous or
disputed evidence as to the future of cavalry, and doctrine was
largely a matter of what appeared practical at the time.
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