ce with plans and provide security
by Observation and Resistance--Strength--Observation (Aircraft;
Mobile Patrols; Outpost Companies)--Resistance (Infantry,
Artillery, and Machine guns; Sentry Groups, Piquets,
Supports, and Reserves)--Distance (Effective fire of various arms
the controlling factor)--Outpost Commander--Information and
Orders--The Outpost Line of Resistance--The Outpost Company
(Piquets, Supports, Detached Posts, Reserves; the Piquet
Commander; Patrols; Sentry Groups)--Day and Night
Work--Disasters through neglect of Tactical Principles (Chateau
of Chambord; Tweefontein)--Battle Outposts (Broenbeek;
Fredericksburg).

TACTICAL RECONNAISSANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141-143

Reconnaissance for Attack--Intelligence Officers--Reconnaissance
by Raids--Position Warfare--Reconnaissance for Defence--Position
Warfare.

NIGHT OPERATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144-154

Reason for Operations by Night (Secrecy; Frederick the Great's
Coat)--Night Marches (Direction; Protection; Secrecy;
Connection)--"Rules of Thumb"--Night Advances (Surprise;
Direction; Position of Deployment; Connection)--Night
Assaults (First Battle of the Somme; Serre Hill; Vimy Ridge;
Messines-Wytschaete; Villers Bretonneux; Morlancourt;
Spottsylvania)--Limitations of Night Assaults--Smoke and its
advantages and disadvantages--Successful and unsuccessful Night
Assaults (Rappahannock Station--Peiwar Kotal--Tel-el-Kebir;
Stormberg; Magersfontein)--Position of Deployment--Distinguishing
Badges, etc.--Watchword--Precautions against
Checks--Secrecy--"Rules of Thumb."

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FIGHTING IN CLOSE COUNTRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155-163

Restrictions on view and on movement--Advantages for Attack
against Defence--Savage Warfare (Isandhlwana; Rorke's Drift;
Tofrik; Toski; Teutoberger Wald)--Civilised Warfare (Villages
and Woods attract troops; Gravelotte; Spicheren; Worth; the
Wilderness; Sedan; Defence of Bazeilles; Noisseville)--Attack
on Woods (Tanks; Gauche; Villers Guislain; Messines)--Advancing
from captured position--Defence of Woods--Fighting
patrols--Attack on Villages (Tanks; Light Mortars)--Defence
of Villages (Delaying Action; Providing a "funnel").

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VARIOUS ARMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164-177

Close combination of all arms required--Infantry (Extent and
limitations of mobility;