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Title: Cavalry in Future Wars

Author: Frederick von Bernhardi

Translator: Charles Sydney Goldman

Release Date: March 9, 2009 [EBook #28298]

Language: English

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CAVALRY IN FUTURE WARS

By HIS EXCELLENCY LIEUT.-GENERAL
FREDERICK VON BERNHARDI

Commander of the Seventh Division of the German Army

Translated by CHARLES SYDNEY GOLDMAN

Author of 'With General French and the Cavalry in South Africa'
Editor of 'The Empire and the Century'

With an Introduction by

LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR JOHN FRENCH
K.C.M.G., K.C.B., G.C.V.O.

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1909

_First Edition, October, 1906_
_Second Edition, April, 1909_

PREFACE

I ventured to express the opinion in my book, 'With General French and
the Cavalry in South Africa,' that if a high ideal of the duties and
possibilities of Cavalry is set before our officers, and the means of
instruction and training are placed within their reach, we shall
possess in our next great War a force which, if led by men of the
stamp of General Sir John French, will prove to the world that the day
of Cavalry is far indeed from being past.

In other words, I am convinced that, with good leadership and the
right material in men, which the South African War has shown we
possess, all that we need to perfect our system is a proper
recognition of the changed conditions of modern Warfare, and a resolve
to break with the old and adapt ourselves to the new situation.

Reforms such as this would necessitate must affect all arms of the
Service, but no branch more than the Cavalry, whose task in future
will be more difficult, yet whose compensation lies in the
possibilities of successes possessing greater significance than any
hitherto attained.

The South African War has roused the Cavalry into a renewal of
activity, and has caused their l