at are taken. In the afternoon and night preceding
the march, outposts could be established, and the service of
exploration commenced. Thus in two or three days a strategic exercise
for the Cavalry on a large scale could be arranged at a very low cost
and with very little difficulty. Such operations would naturally be
conducted by the Inspectors-General of Cavalry, and, as the example
shows, they could be generally, if not everywhere, easily
organized.[30]

[Footnote 30: Taking into account these and similar demands
on the Inspectors-General, the question arises whether the
time has not come to attach to them permanently officers of
the General Staff. Every increase in the number of these
officers employed in peace is a great advantage for War,
because the War formations require far more Staff Officers to
fill the new positions created on mobilization than are
employed in peace--a very serious disadvantage. I consider it
absolutely essential that each Inspector-General of Cavalry
should be provided with a permanent Staff.]

Since it is essential in all Cavalry exercises to take into account
the numbers and distances with which we shall have to deal in future
Warfare, it would be a great gain to the Arm if in the manoeuvres, in
which its action in combination with the other Arms should be taught,
this point of view was brought more into the foreground.

Of course it is not intended that the interests of the other Arms
should be sacrificed to those of the Cavalry; the question rather is
whether these interests are not identical even for the Infantry; the
importance of minor tactics has fallen very much into the background,
and both Infantry and Artillery require far more practice in 'masses.'
Detachment warfare can for the most part be quite sufficiently
practised in the garrisons, but the opportunities for exercising the
large units are far more difficult to find.

I consider, therefore, that it would be of advantage to all Arms if
present Brigade manoeuvres, with all their superannuated customs, were
abolished in favour of more Divisional and Corps manoeuvres. The
Cavalry, at any rate, would welcome the innovation, for from its point
of view these manoeuvres could be made far more practical, and it
would be easier to arrange schemes for the latter more in accordance
with reality.

It is also most desirable that from time to t