Marksmanship Training - part oneMarksmanship training took a major role in military training. First, soldiers had to be drilled in weapons handling followed by theoretical lessons about ballistics, bullet trajectory,…
The Development of Infantry Doctrine – part four Regiments attacking first broke up into their battalions, one next to another, and then again into company columns. A company forming an…
The Development of Infantry Doctrine – part threeTraditionally, the German military had always distinguished between geleitetem Feuerand Schützenfeuer. Geleitetes Feuer or directed fire was where officers controlled distance, target, and…
The Development of Infantry Doctrine – part two Only a very few elite Prussian units, such as light infantry battalions (the Jäger), were equipped with the more precise rifled muzzleloaders.…
The Development of Infantry Doctrine – part one Why was there such a gap between the prevailing doctrinal idea of war and the truth of actual war in 1914? The development of…
HKK - Höherer Kavallerie Kommandeur - part one Just about everyone who is a fan of World War I has the wrong understanding of corps sized cavalry units in the German…
General Staff Officers – part two Bavaria had its own war academy. Almost the entire course of study was book learning but at the end, there was a three-week staff ride.…
Yesterday, I was asked why the blog archive contained the names of four states but not Baden. Those four states were kingdoms. They each had their own king. Baden was…
General Staff Officers part 1 One of the reasons that our books are so different from others is because of our intimate knowledge of the “red donkey”. These were manuals…
The Population-part four –The Proletariat-second halfThe proletariat lived in residential segregation and feared layoffs or any change in circumstances that would affect their ability to earn wages. Between 1870 and…