The Rifle in War

Eames, Henry Edgar

ISBN 10: 114283784X / ISBN 13: 9781142837846

Edité par Nabu Press, 2010

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• Titre: The Rifle in War
• Éditeur: Nabu Press
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 114283784X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781142837846
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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It was so deep and difficult that many of its own officers did not understand it and put the questioning alien off with a wise wave of the hand and an intimation that it could not even be explained. And yet at that very time, the problem of the use of the fire of small arms was much more complicated and as little understood. The artillery experienced a renaissance about twenty years ago and developed from a technical into a tactical arm and Modern Artillery was an accomplished fact. Having but four or six gurffe to handle, they have worked with such skill and understanding upon the problem of the use of those guns that the whole art of war has been all but tumbled over by the efficiency of their fire. One of the foremost of the workers in this fertile fie Jld was Lieutenant General H. Rohne and much of the progress in the artillery world is due to his lucid and remarkable works on that subject. Some ten years ago, this gifted officQT turned his attention to the more complicated and more difficult task of the fire of infantry, and working along lines made familiar through his artillery investigations he devoloped the study of the rifle as we know it to-day. Prior to von Rohne, Parravicino, a brilliant Italian General had begun a series of experiments and had laid a broad foundation upon which General Rohne later was to build the finished structure. After the appearance of von Rohne sfirst books, the French investigators entered the field and added much to the knowledge of the world on the subject, but France had become so wedded to the theory of Woloskoi, a Russian General of renown and an author of several books on the subject of the rifle in war, that although the French investigators produced their full share of the best modern books on the subject, they were not able to influence their own army to the same extent as General Rohne influenced that of German
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