INTA 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Fighting Platform, Operational Level Of War
7 Jan 2017
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The impacts of telegraph and railways on strategy and operation: the most important characteristic was immobility and inflexibility. Telegraph stations, like railheads are not easily moved from one place to another. Both are a part of systems, and are accordingly vulnerable to disruption, not only by enemy, but by owns" troops. During wars both sides for the most part deployed their troops not where they would do the greatest good but wherever the railways and unloading stations happened to be suited. And the side with the largest numbers of railways would win the race. *ways of dealing with the firepower of the new weapons: Entrenchment: the idea that, in the field, low was safe and tall was dead . The new uniforms had colors known as horizon blue, earth brown, filed gray, and olive green. Headgear became less decorative and more functional, steel helmets. Weapons themselves, instead of being brightly polished as hitherto, were given a coat of dull paint.
