. The warfare of to-day. * ■ * Region of the Mort-Homme near \erdun: a conquered German trench. Near Moulin de Laffaux, battle of the Aisne (1917) • Engineers constructing a route AFTER AX ADVANCE HOW TO ACHIEVE VICTORY The pursuit is characterized by a special tac-tical use of the different arms, infantry, artil-lery, aviation, engineers, and especially , the march formations are not alwaysthe same throughout each arm. The troopsform in column whenever possible, instead ofdeploying in line, as the first-named formationis more suitable to advance. They have specialmarching zone
. The warfare of to-day. * ■ * Region of the Mort-Homme near \erdun: a conquered German trench. Near Moulin de Laffaux, battle of the Aisne (1917) • Engineers constructing a route AFTER AX ADVANCE HOW TO ACHIEVE VICTORY The pursuit is characterized by a special tac-tical use of the different arms, infantry, artil-lery, aviation, engineers, and especially , the march formations are not alwaysthe same throughout each arm. The troopsform in column whenever possible, instead ofdeploying in line, as the first-named formationis more suitable to advance. They have specialmarching zones where the roads are distributedbetween the various columns. The specialistsare no longer used as before; the flat trajectoryweapons recover their importance; the rifle, auto-matic rifle, automatic machine rifle, and machinegun find many occasions where they are of use;the high trajectory arms are less needed. Thereis a special duty for the trench-cleaners. Withthe aid of specialists from the engineers, theyseek out and destroy traps set by the enemy, suchas prepared mines, cleverly arra
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