The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 140Atlantic Monthly Company, 1927 - American essays |
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Page 77
... army of France's future ally . The parallel between Kitchener and Joffre was soon strengthened , for the loss of his wife led Joffre in 1885 to seek distraction in colonial service , where so many of the leading soldiers of France , as ...
... army of France's future ally . The parallel between Kitchener and Joffre was soon strengthened , for the loss of his wife led Joffre in 1885 to seek distraction in colonial service , where so many of the leading soldiers of France , as ...
Page 78
... Army Corps at Amiens . In 1910 , while holding this post , he was nominated to the Conseil Supérieur de la Guerre , whose members are the official advisers of the Minister in peace and the higher commanders designate in case of war ...
... Army Corps at Amiens . In 1910 , while holding this post , he was nominated to the Conseil Supérieur de la Guerre , whose members are the official advisers of the Minister in peace and the higher commanders designate in case of war ...
Page 79
... Army was distributed in a strategic formation in depth , roughly diamond- shaped , which could be manœuvred ' against the enemy according to the line of invasion that he took . Its strategy was thus of an offensive - defensive na- ture ...
... Army was distributed in a strategic formation in depth , roughly diamond- shaped , which could be manœuvred ' against the enemy according to the line of invasion that he took . Its strategy was thus of an offensive - defensive na- ture ...
Page 80
... army is beginning to be impregnated . ' Joffre was known to be such a good Republi- can and so devoid of political attach- ments that the Government did not hesitate to give him the combined functions of Vice President of the Con- seil ...
... army is beginning to be impregnated . ' Joffre was known to be such a good Republi- can and so devoid of political attach- ments that the Government did not hesitate to give him the combined functions of Vice President of the Con- seil ...
Page 81
... army . Such an idea was anathema to the ' Young Turks , ' who held that their cherished offensif à outrance could only be car- ried out by rigidly disciplined troops whose reflexes would carry them for- ward in spite of bullets . Thus ...
... army . Such an idea was anathema to the ' Young Turks , ' who held that their cherished offensif à outrance could only be car- ried out by rigidly disciplined troops whose reflexes would carry them for- ward in spite of bullets . Thus ...
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