Chapter IV

ADVANCE GUARDS 56-69
STRENGTH AND COMPOSITION 56-58
Advance guards of various organizations 56
Machine guns 56
Mounted men. Advance guard cavalry. Duties 56
Engineers. Signal and sanitary troops 56-58
Artillery. Field trains 57-58
Splitting organizations to form advance guard 57
Leading troops 57
Removal of obstacles to the march 58
THE START--DETAILS OF. Initial point 58
Route of advance guard 58
Outpost troops and cavalry 58
Assembly of field trains 58
Assembly in column of route. Elongation 59
ASSEMBLY ORDER 59
Calculations of times of starting for various organizations 59
Interference of routes 59
Subdivisions of advance guard 60
DISTANCES. How regulated 60
Cavalry advance guards 60-63
RECONNAISSANCE 60-62
Duty of cavalry. Independent and advance cavalry 60-62
Parallel roads 61
Flank guards 61
Mounted point 61
Method of “offset patrolling,” by infantry 61
Connecting files 61
Operations of advance cavalry 61-62
Communication with neighboring troops 62
Important features of the terrain 62
Places of advance guard and supreme commanders 62
March outposts 62
Control of means of communication 62
Civilians not to precede advance guard 63
Conduct of advance guard on meeting the enemy 63
Passage of bridges and defiles 63
OUTLINE OF SOLUTION OF SMALL ADVANCE GUARD PROBLEMS 64
EXAMPLES OF ADVANCE GUARD ORDERS 65-69