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2021-04-24 Europe

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Posted by badanov 2021-04-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Some Americans learned at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, et al that frontal attacks that move at the speed of a walk do not work well other than getting a lot of people killed. The general consensus of the European military establishment was that little of value was learned from the American Civil War experience other than the Prussians who adapted aspect of the use of railroads to rapidly coordinate and move personnel.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-24 07:03|| 2021-04-24 07:03|| Front Page Top

#2 The sad thing was that "Little of value" was learned from the Boer War as well. There was initially some attempts at expanding skirmisher training to the masses of infantry BUT it was resisted by the higher command. As one Prussian general was quoted: "We spend all that time drilling them to operate as a unit and now you want us to train them to be a mob!" (or words to that effect)

Posted by magpie 2021-04-24 11:35|| 2021-04-24 11:35|| Front Page Top

#3 ...the British did decide to stop wearing bright red coats after experiencing what a Mauser rifle in the hands of a competent shooter. They also discovered that their direct fire cannons, a favorite in the colonial wars, were also outranged by Mausers...

Posted by magpie 2021-04-24 11:39|| 2021-04-24 11:39|| Front Page Top

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