Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Tactical Crisis
-The Infantry Attack
-The Cavalry Question
-The Artillery Dilemma
2. Initial Solutions
-Infantry: Normaltaktik Versus Auftragstaktik
-Cavalry: Toward Greater Versatitility and Firepower
-Artillery: Balancing Concentration and Dispersion
-Views from Abroad
3. The Crisis Expands: Is War Now Impossible?
-Fin de Siecle Change
-A Larger, More Lethal Battlefield
-Impact of the Boer War
-Threat to the Warrior Spirit
-Civilian Views
-Is War Now Impossible?
4. The Struggle for Resolution
-Normaltaktik Versus Auftragstaktik
-The Campaign for the Warrior Spirit
5. A Tactical Synthesis: The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War
-The Infantry Attack
-The Cavalry Question
-The Artillery Dilemma
6. Beyond Resolution
-Integrating the Machine Guns
-Uses of Aircraft
-From Flank Attack to Breakthrough
7. On War in the Present
-The Duel with Delbruck
-The Gesamtschlacht
-The “Ingenious” View
-From Decisive Battles to People's War
-Views from Abroad
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index