Military Instructors Manual eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 372 pages of information about Military Instructors Manual.

Military Instructors Manual eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 372 pages of information about Military Instructors Manual.

CHAPTER 14.

Conferences; 259
  Study; 259
  Syllabus:  Small problems for infantry; 261
  Examinations; 269
  Military science and tactics; 275
  Minor tactics; 275

CHAPTER 15.

Trench warfare; 287
  General principles; 287
  Instructions to be issued by battalion commander; 287
  Attack of a defensive position; 289
  Attacking from trenches; 291
  Defense of trenches; 296
    Liaison; 298
  Trench orders; 299
  Selection of site; 302
  Trench construction; 303, 307
    General arrangement; 303
    System of laying out trenches; 307
    Revettments; 308
    Sod; 310
    Sand bags; 310
    Concrete work; 310
    Gabions; 310
    Trench armament; 311
    Loopholes; 311
    Trench bottoms; 311
    Communication trench; 313
    Latrines; 315
    Shelters; 315
    Dugouts; 317
    Sentries; 317
    Position; 317
    Entrances; 317
    Galleries; 318
    Bomb-traps; 318
    Interior; 318
    Depots for supplies; 318
    Telephones; 319
    Departure parallel; 319
    Machine gun emplacements; 319
    Listening posts; 321
    Wire entanglements; 321
    High entanglements; 321
    Tracing entanglements; 322
    Low entanglements; 322
    Loose wire; 322
  Criticisms by Lieut Henri Poire; 322
Occupation; 325
  Two main classes of relief; 325
  General principles of relief; 325
  Mechanism of relief; 325
    Attack during the march; 328
  The stay in the trenches; 329
    Four objects of a trench commander; 329
    His plan of defense; 329
    Organization of defense; 329
    Liaison; 331
    Observation; 331
    Trench work; 333
    Offensive operations; 334
    Rule of the trench commander; 335
  Duties of the company commander; 335
  Duties of platoon leaders as officers on duty; 339
  Duties of platoon leaders; 339
  In front line trenches; 340
  Duties of non-commissioned officer on duty; 341
  Patrols; 342
  Sentinels; 342
  Machine guns; 342
  Snipers; 343
  Organization of a platoon; 344
  Deployments; 346
  Normal battalion formation in attack; 347
  General principles of the platoon formation in assault of
    fortified positions; 349
  Remarks regarding forming of wave from close order; 353
  Some questions a platoon commander should ask himself; 354
  Defensive measure against gas attacks; 356
    General considerations; 356
    Nature of gas attacks; 356
      Gas clouds; 356
      Gas projectiles; 358
      Tear or lachrymatory shells; 359
      Poison shells; 359
      Smoke; 359
      Mine and explosion gases; 359
  Protection of shelters; 360
    Methods of protection; 360

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