Excerpt from Topography and Strategy in the War As a student of land forms who is more or less familiar with the broader topographic features of Europe the writer has had a professional as well as a personal interest in the great war. He was particularly anxious to discover how far modern military operations are still affected by the element of terrain; and whether guns which hurl high ex plosive shells with marvelous accuracy over lofty mountain ridges and across the widest river valleys, aeroplane service which permits ...
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Excerpt from Topography and Strategy in the War As a student of land forms who is more or less familiar with the broader topographic features of Europe the writer has had a professional as well as a personal interest in the great war. He was particularly anxious to discover how far modern military operations are still affected by the element of terrain; and whether guns which hurl high ex plosive shells with marvelous accuracy over lofty mountain ridges and across the widest river valleys, aeroplane service which permits better observations than can be secured from the most favorably situated topographic eminences, and modern engineering devices which refuse to be daunted by the deepest stream or steepest cliff, have eliminated the surface features of the land as an important factor in mili tary calculations. Aided by large scale maps showing with precision the topography of the principal battle fronts he has, from the first days of the war, followed with some care the changes on each front, and has found ample indication that the role played by land forms in plans of campaign and movements of armies is no less important today than in the past. To emphasize this interesting relationship be tween inanimate Nature and the science of war is one of the objects of this book. Another object, and perhaps the more important, is to place before the reader such a picture' of each theater of war as shall enable him to follow with greater ease and livelier interest the movements of our own and our Allies' troops. If the surface features of Europe control in im portant measure the issues of the various campaigns, con tributing to success in one field and imposing failure inunderstanding of the war despatches printed daily in the press. Maps ordinarily accessible to the public are in accurate and vague, and there exists no single volume giving such maps, diagrams, photographs, and word descriptions of the theaters of war as will provide the reader with good mental pictures of those fields on which the battles of democ racy are being waged. To meet this need, so far as I am able, is the chief purpose of this volume. In order to give it a maximum of usefulness I have endeavored to combine scientific accuracy in the descriptions of topography with a treatment which avoids the use of technical terms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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