Letters on Applied Tactics: Problems Dealing with the Operations of Detachments of the Three Arms

Griepenkerl, Major-General, trans. by C. H. Barth

Published by Franklin Hudson Publishing, Kansas City, MO, 1918

About this Item

342, figures, fold-out maps, footnotes, rear board weak, some foxing, bds and spine worn and quite spotted, bd corners worn. This is a translation of the Seventh Edition (published in 1908) of Griepenkerl's Letters on Applied Tactics; the translation was undertaken atthe request of the Department of Military Art of the Service Schools, Fort Leavenworth. Topics covered include orders for a forward march; flank march; quartering troops for the night, and flank march; change of direction of march; protection of a convoy; advance guard orders; orders for retreat; rear-guard orders; retreat of a flanking detachment; retreat after a defeat; orders for a forward march--recapitulation; orders for attack (enemy deployed and prepared for defense); orders for a forward march--a meeting engagement; orders for the occupation of a defensive position; position in readiness; position for defense; attack by a flankingdetachment; advance-guard action (encounter of two opposing forces on the march); advance-guard orders to establish outposts--arrangements for cantonments; outpost orders--sketch of the outposts (day and night position); outposts of a pursuing force; and attack of a river line.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Letters on Applied Tactics: Problems Dealing with the Operations of Detachments of the Three Arms
• Publisher: Franklin Hudson Publishing, Kansas City, MO
• Publication Date: 1918
• Edition: Fifth Edition.
• Condition: fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Tactics