is completed it must
be continued in the regiment, and where the conditions at all
allow--_i.e._, where the garrisons are not too far apart--it must
culminate in brigade work.

The 'training'--_i.e._, the condition of the horses-must by this time
have made such progress that marches of twenty to thirty miles for the
main body are well within their power. Here a wide and profitable
field opens for the Brigade Commander, but it is important in every
case--security, screening, reconnaissance, raid, or surprise--to bring
out systematically and clearly the essential difference of procedure
required, so that all grades of Leaders learn to realize the
fundamental distinction which exists between these various forms of
their several duties.

It is also equally important that in each Command operations in
several detachments, the regulation of their marching speed, their
combined action in the fight, the proper working of the arrangements
for collecting information or transmitting orders, should be practised
again and again till certainty in their interaction is secured.

It is further necessary to call attention to the necessity, in the
interests of a prudent economy of one's forces, to arrange the patrol
service systematically, not only as regards the sphere of action
allotted to each, but also as to the time of their departure.

Thus, in the march of a single body, the duty of attending to its
security may be assigned to the troops themselves, whilst the
reconnoitring task is allotted by the officer directing the
operations; or, in the case of separate bodies, that each receives its
own particular scouting mission, with which, then, the Director
refrains from interfering. Otherwise it may easily happen that patrols
are despatched for the same purpose by different Commanders, with a
corresponding waste of power and the risks of leaving gaps in the
whole line.

The Commanders of mixed detachments should also make this need of
systematic procedure clear to themselves, and either leave the whole
duty of reconnaissance in the hands of the Cavalry, or if they elect
to retain certain portions of the work in their own hands they should
inform the Cavalry Commander of the fact, and not interfere afterwards
with his arrangements, or fail to keep him acquainted with the
measures they have themselves taken.

The first course is correct in principle, and will always give the
best results when a competent Cavalry officer is kept s