Table of Contents
Foreword General Donn A. Starry vii
Preface xiii
1 Cavalry and the Operational Art l
2 The Classical Horse 8
3 The West in Decline: Mongol Cavalry 22
4 The Medieval Cavalry 34
5 Into the Aufklarung: Cavalry and the Lace Wars 55
6 Napoleonics, Part I: Cavalry Becomes an Operational Arm 72
7 Napoleonics, Part II: Ulm to Waterloo 78
8 The Industrialized Warhorse: From Balaclava to Gettysburg 92
9 The Warhorse versus Technology: From Mars-La-Tour to Little Bighorn: From the Sudan to Manchuria 107
10 Cavalry in the Great War, Part I: The Golden Summer 123
11 Cavalry in the Great War, Part II: Tactical Stalemate and Quest for Breakthrough 144
12 Mechanization and the Cavalry: Toward an Epiphanic Moment 153
13 Cavalry in the Second World War, Part I: The American Apocalypse 176
14 Cavalry in the Second World War, Part II: The Horse within Blitzkrieg 184
15 Cavalry in the Second World War, Part III: The Russian Warhorse and the Tank 193
16 Cold Warhorse: Pegasus ex Machina 197
17 The Warhorse in the New Millennium: Hoofed and Tracked 210
18 The Deliquescence of the Cavalry 220
Notes 229
Index 267