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The Making of a Modern Army and its Operations in the Field / A study based on the experience of three years on the French front (1914-1917)

Chapter 15: INDEX
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A divisional commander's study based on frontline experience describes the organization and operations of a contemporary large army on the Western Front. It explains strategy and tactics, the composition and duties of divisions and staffs, and the growing military uses of aviation. Separate chapters examine trench systems, artillery roles including anti-aircraft and tanks, and the logistics of munition parks and transport. The work surveys infantry arms, training and assault versus defensive procedures, and signaling, and it closes with illustrated examples of attack preparation alongside critical observations on prohibited or dubious methods of warfare.

INDEX

  • Aërial torpedoes, 84
  • Agents de liaison, 19
  • Air supremacy, 46
  • Ammunition (different issues), 109
  • Anti-aircraft artillery, 92
  • Armoured motor-cars, 94
  • Army, 17
  • Army corps, 17
  • Army group, 17
  • Artillery, 19, 68, 77, 80
  • Artillery (advance), 95
  • Artillery of an army corps, 81
  • Artillery in trenches, 68
  • Artillery of a division, 82
  • Asphyxiating gas, 17, 89, 150, 152
  • Asphyxiating projectiles, 37
  • Assaulting and occupation troops, 135
  • Attack in Artois, 13
  • Automatic pistols, 121
  • Aviation, 29, 45
  • Aviators (British), 46
  • Balloons, 28, 43
  • Barrage, 44, 87, 92, 109, 138, 143
  • Bastion, 59
  • Battalions of three companies, 147
  • Battle planes, 20, 34, 36
  • Bayonet, 118
  • Biplanes, 34
  • Blockhouses, 64
  • Boardwalk flooring, 61
  • Bombardments, 40
  • Bombing planes, 36
  • Boyaux, 64, 66, 67
  • Brigade, 19
  • Burros, 105
  • Camouflage, 63, 75, 106
  • Camouflet, 70
  • Carrel, Dr. Alexis, 22
  • Carrier pigeons, 145
  • Casemates, 68
  • Cavalry, 19, 148
  • Centres of resistance, 55, 64
  • Check positions, 65
  • Citations, 127
  • Clayonnages, 60
  • Command, 22
  • Commissariat department, 20
  • Communication tunnels, 57, 64, 66, 67
  • Compressed air mortars, 84
  • Counterfiring, 88
  • Craters, 53, 70
  • Defensive, 134
  • Defensive engagements, 142
  • Destructive fire, 88
  • Dirigible balloons, 49
  • Division, 17, 131
  • Division front, 131
  • Division (General), 22
  • Division, its dispositions, 132
  • Dugouts, 57, 64
  • Engineers, 19
  • Engineers (American), 74
  • Field artillery, 86, 92, 143
  • Field batteries, 81
  • Firing tables, 87
  • “Flaming onions,” 94
  • Framework of the army, 147
  • Fronts (distance between), 52
  • Gaz-vésicant, 152
  • Grenades, 53, 117, 119
  • Gun (37 mm.), 94
  • Guns (75 mm., 87 mm.), 87
  • Guns (120, 155, 220, 270, 280, 305, 370, 400, 520, 19, 100, 240, 224, 305, 340 mm.), 80
  • Guynemer (Captain), 34
  • Harvest, 39
  • Hearing masks, 43
  • Howitzers, 83
  • Hydroplanes, 48
  • Incendiary projectiles, 37
  • Infantry, 18, 112
  • Inspections, 24
  • Instruction, 122, 157
  • Italian airplanes, 37
  • Liquid fire, 11, 17, 153
  • Listening posts, 63, 70
  • Loopholes, 62
  • Machine-gun rifle, 117
  • Machine-gun shelters, 62, 86
  • Machine-guns, 35, 113, 115, 117
  • Map (directing), 42
  • Masks, 89, 151
  • Medical department, 20
  • “Minenwerfers,” 11, 68
  • Mines and counter-mines, 69
  • Monoplanes, 34
  • Morale of the French, 58
  • Motor cars, 73, 104
  • Motors, 39
  • Munition parks, 20, 100, 101
  • Munition supply, 105
  • Neutralization fire, 89, 91
  • Observation planes, 40
  • Observation posts, 62, 66
  • Offensive engagements and their preparation, 136
  • Officers (duties of), 123
  • Office staff, 25
  • Pack transport, 116
  • Pare-éclats, 60, 66
  • Periscopes, 66
  • Pershing, General, 58, 120
  • Photographs, aërial, 41
  • Planes for directing fire of artillery and movements of infantry, 20, 43
  • Planes for reconnoitring, 20, 40, 43
  • Plants of the Germans, 38, 39
  • Post of command, 23, 144
  • Powder, 102
  • Prolonged engagements, 143
  • Protecting line of the artillery, 65, 68
  • Railway troops, 70
  • Rear organization, 18
  • Re-entrants, 59
  • Regiment, 19
  • Relief maps, 42
  • Replacing guns, 107
  • Rest hospitals, 21
  • Retubing of guns, 108
  • Rifle, 112, 122
  • Rigoles, 61
  • Rockets, 43, 44, 146
  • Salients, 59
  • Shells, 150 mm., 54, 102
  • Shelters, 54, 65
  • Shock-troops, 129
  • Signalling, 146
  • Squadrillas, 35, 36
  • Staffs, 24
  • Stations têtes d’étapes, 101
  • Strategy, 11, 14, 15
  • Supply shelters, 104
  • Support trenches, 64, 84
  • Tactics, 10, 14, 15
  • Tanks, 84, 117
  • Tear-producing gas, 17, 152
  • Transportation by road, 73
  • Transportation of munitions by railroad, 100
  • Trench artillery, 83
  • Trench knives, 121
  • Trench of attack, 67
  • Trench organization, 51, 52, 58
  • Trucks, 105
  • Verdun, 12, 144
  • Winged torpedoes, 37
  • Wire entanglements, 63, 68, 86
  • Wireless, 43
  • Withdrawal of artillery, 97
  • Wounded, transportation of, 21
  • Yser front, 11
  • Zeppelins, 48, 93
  • Zone d’étapes, 101