Note 47 — Chapter IX · BLOEMFONTEIN TO KOMATI POORT

Bernhardi utters a wholesome warning on this subject in his “Cavalry in Future Wars” (p. 54), and advocates direct fire-action. “Cavalry Training,” if it could reach the point of regarding mounted riflemen as “Cavalry,” would, of course, do the same, and thereby refute the theory of the inevitable “shock duel” between opposing Cavalries.