CAVALRY IN THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WARLessons and critical considerations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781845748241)

The author of this study of cavalry operations in the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War, Count Gustav Wrangel, an Austrian cavalry officer, admits that the performance of the cavalry on both sides was 'poor' being confined to a few raids. His book is really a plea for a greater role for the cavalry and a lament for what he calls 'sins of omission' ie cavalry operations which could have been undertaken but which were not owing to insufficient numbers being available. ( He points out that the Japanese were about to double the size of their cavalry to eight divisions). He was not to know, of course, that within a decade of his book's publication the Great War with its mechanisation would make the age-old arm of the cavalry utterly obsolete. Even so, this book is a fascinating period piece.

Author: Gustav Wrangel Austrian Cavalry
ISBN-10: 1845748247
ISBN-13: 9781845748241
Publisher: Naval & Military Press
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2011
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d