.[20]

[Footnote 20: With stronger Divisions, a corresponding
increase in Artillery must, of course, be made.]

Further, these small batteries are both handier and more mobile in
themselves; they are, therefore, better suited to Cavalry
requirements, and at the same time the power of concentration when
such is required is fully retained.

The advantage of this proposed division seems, therefore, to me
sufficiently clear to need no further recommendation.[21]

[Footnote 21: King William I. had already suggested the
formation of batteries of four guns for the Cavalry in
1869--in a marginal note on the report of Moltke's of
1868--already referred to in the note on p. 166 above.]

This organization of the Artillery requires, however, to be
supplemented by the introduction of a true quick-firing gun, even if
it is necessary to reduce the calibre somewhat to keep down the
weight. For it is particularly with the Cavalry, and especially in the
Cavalry duel, when the opportunities for Artillery action are often
compressed into a very few moments, and yet a great effect must be
attained, that a gun without recoil and a great rapidity of loading is
most urgently required. If the Cavalry is thus equipped with all that
the conditions of War demand and modern technical skill can supply,
then it will find in these--at least in part--compensation for its
numerical weakness on condition that at the same time it also succeeds
in raising its training to a corresponding height.

It cannot be denied that in this direction all ranks have worked with
most devoted and admirable industry, and that new points of view, new
methods, and new aims towards which to strive have been opened up.
But, on the whole, this question of the training of our Cavalry is
still based upon the ideas of a period which lies behind us. There has
been no conscious breach with the past, even in those very fields
wherein the developments and demands of modern times have brought
about a complete disturbance of all military relations.

That a method of training which does not take into account the
phenomena of modern Warfare, and follow them even to their furthermost
consequences, can never give satisfactory results, needs no
demonstration. But a method free from these objections we have to
find. In its training our Cavalry _must_ excel all others if it would
maintain its position on the field of battle, and it