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Tactics and duties for trench fighting

Chapter 3: FOREWORD
By Georges Etienne Bertrand
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A practical manual detailing organization and tactics for trench warfare, covering company structure and specialists, formations, trench construction and sector layout, daily duties including sentries and reliefs, defense measures like wire and counterattacks, offensive planning and assault organization, artillery coordination, reconnaissance and communications, and equipment use; emphasizes principles, examples, and drill procedures to prepare units for both holding and attacking fortified positions.

FOREWORD

It must be borne in mind that this book deals with principles and examples of methods of warfare, and not fixed rules. There are no fixed methods in warfare. Development in warfare means change of methods or the invention of new ones to overcome military difficulties. However, one must have knowledge of past and present methods to be ready for the next logical step of development.

Headquarters, Fort Sheridan Training Camp, Ill.,
October 26, 1917.
From: Major O. N. Solbert, C. of E.
To the Adjutant General, U. S. Army, through official channels.
Subject: Publication of Lectures.

I. Request authority to publish in pamphlet form lectures given at this camp on Trench Fighting.

Major, C. of E.

1st Indorsement
Office of the Senior Instructor, Fort Sheridan Training Camp, Illinois, October 26, 1917.
To the Commanding Officer:

Earnestly recommending that the lectures referred to above be published in pamphlet form. I consider it most desirable that every graduate of this camp take these lectures with him, upon being commissioned. I do not believe that the best interests of the service will suffer, in any way by publishing these lectures.

Lt. Colonel, Infantry,
Senior Instructor.

2nd Indorsement
Hq., The Fort Sheridan Training Camp, October 26, 1917.
To the Adjutant General of the Army, Washington, D. C.

I. Approved.

Colonel of Cavalry,
Commanding.

War Department, A. G. O., October 31, 1917.
To Headquarters, The Fort Sheridan Training Camp, Fort Sheridan, Ill.

Returned.

I. Approved.

By order of the Secretary of War:

Adjutant General.