CAVALRY IN THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WARLessons and critical considerations

Count Gustav Wrangel Austrian Cavalry

ISBN 10: 1845748247 / ISBN 13: 9781845748241

Published by Naval & Military Press, 2011

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2010 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1907). SB 90 pp + Map Published Price £8.50 The author of this study of cavalry operations in the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War, Count Gustav Wrangel, an Austrian cavalry officer, admits that the performance of the cavalry on both sides was â poorâ being confined to a few raids. His book is really a plea for a greater role for the cavalry and a lament for what he calls â sins of omissionâ ie cavalry operations which could have been undertaken but which were not owing to insufficient numbers being available. ( He points out that the Japanese were about to double the size of their cavalry to eight divisions). He was not to know, of course, that within a decade of his bookâ s publication the Great War with its mechanisation would make the age-old arm of the cavalry utterly obsolete. Even so, this book is a fascinating period piece.

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• Title: CAVALRY IN THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WARLessons and critical considerations
• Publisher: Naval & Military Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845748247
• ISBN 13: 9781845748241
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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  • Military History

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The author of this study of cavalry operations in the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War, Count Gustav Wrangel, an Austrian cavalry officer, admits that the performance of the cavalry on both sides was 'poor' being confined to a few raids. His book is really a plea for a greater role for the cavalry and a lament for what he calls 'sins of omission' ie cavalry operations which could have been undertaken but which were not owing to insufficient numbers being available. ( He points out that the Japanese were about to double the size of their cavalry to eight divisions). He was not to know, of course, that within a decade of his book's publication the Great War with its mechanisation would make the age-old arm of the cavalry utterly obsolete. Even so, this book is a fascinating period piece.