Excerpt from Tactics, Vol. 2 This, the second volume of tactics treats of the employment of cavalry, field and heavy artillery in field warfare, with due regard to the great influence exerted on them by the lessons of recent campaigns. Although cavalry was unable to win victories with the arm blanche in the Balkans, in south-africa, and in Manchuria, the science of combat as such should nevertheless point out that cavalry need by no means dispense with shock action; that, in spite of all mechanical improvements in fire arms, saber and lance have not, by a long shot, become useless. While I place a high value upon the use of fire action, I am firmly convinced that the days of mounted charges are, by no means, over. The more our opponents are convinced of the futility of a charge against infantry or artillery, the better the chances of our success. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.