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Paperback Forward Into Battle: Fighting Tactics from Waterloo to the Near Future Book

ISBN: 0891414711

ISBN13: 9780891414711

Forward Into Battle: Fighting Tactics from Waterloo to the Near Future

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Book Overview

For the first time in softcover, this is the greatly expanded second edition of Paddy Griffith's challenging work on battlefield tactics. 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. Now, a decade later, the author has been able to fill out many parts of his analysis and has extended it into the near future. This description may be from another edition of this product.
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Customer Reviews

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Rated 5 stars
Importance of Shock Action

Paddy Griffith argues that the importance of firepower has been overestimated relative to shock action. For instance, Griffith contends that Wellington's army was successful not simply because of its volley fire but more importantly from the subsequent charge. He argues that at New Orleans poor troops lacking discipline failed to take a fortified line that good troops could have taken. He details the rise of light infantry...

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Required Reading for USMC Majors

Paddy Griffith spent a decade and a half lecturing officer cadets at Sandhurst on tactics, and this book shows why. After a brief introduction, an outdated narrative with the USSR attacking NATO, the book settles into four case studies. The first study is that of firepower vs shock in the period 1808-1815, the Napoleonic wars, including the War of 1812. Griffith shows that earlier theories about the British lining up and...

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Rated 5 stars
A brilliant discussion of the tactical fundimentals of war.

Over the years Griffith has established himself as a contraversial and insightful military theorist. His insight into the fundimental tactical principles of warfare, and thier application and mis-application under differing combat venues is an interesting read. He continues his discussion from his other books on the merits of shock verses skirmish tactics, and the effectiveness of stand-off assault verses direct engagement...

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