Tactics, Volume 1 (of 2). Introduction and Formal Tactics of Infantry

Note 16 — INTRODUCTION.

Walter Krueger translation

See Kühne, Kritische Wanderungen, 4 and 5, Preface p. 5.

[17] von Boguslawski, Entwickelung der Taktik, II, p. 17.

[18] “When one attempts to establish a principle, immediately a great number of officers, imagining that they are solving the question, at once cry out: ‘Everything depends on circumstances; according to the wind must the sails be set.’ But if you do not know beforehand which sail is proper for such and such a wind, how can you set the sail according to the wind?” Bugeaud, Aperçus sur quelques détails de guerre.

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