Some Principles of Frontier Mountain Warfare

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SOME PRINCIPLES
Frontier Mountain Warfare
BREVET-MAJOR W.D. BIRD, D.S.O.
(Late Professor at Indian Staff College.)
London:
HUGH REES, Ltd., 119, PALL MALL, S.W.
1909
SOME PRINCIPLES OF FRONTIER MOUNTAIN WARFARE.
The saying that there is no new thing under the sun, is as applicable to military affairs as to those of everyday life, for it is fully admitted that the principles underlying all strategy and tactics, whether of mountain or other warfare, are immutable.
But though the principles of strategy and tactics are unchanging, organisation, formations, and minor items of procedure, must be continually amended to meet ever varying circumstances, and, in addition, each campaign possesses special characteristics demanding further modifications.
There are, in fact, no invariable rules in the conduct of war, and whilst formalism is harmful in all matters, in military operations it is disastrous.