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The author of this study of cavalry operations in the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War, Count Gustav Wrangel, an Austrian cavalry officer, admits that the performance of the cavalry on both sides was ''poor'' being confined to a few raids. His book is really a plea for a greater role for the cavalry and a lament for what he calls ''sins of omission'' ie cavalry operations which could have been undertaken but which were not owing to insufficient numbers being available. ( He points out that the Japanese were about to double the size of their cavalry to eight divisions). He was not to know, of course, that within a decade of his book''s publication the Great War with its mechanisation would make the age-old arm of the cavalry utterly obsolete. Even so, this book is a fascinating period piece.

CAVALRY IN THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WARLessons and Critical Considerations

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      Publisher: Naval & Military Press Ltd
      Publication Date: 02/06/2011
      ISBN13: 9781845748241, 978-1845748241
      ISBN10: 1845748247

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The author of this study of cavalry operations in the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War, Count Gustav Wrangel, an Austrian cavalry officer, admits that the performance of the cavalry on both sides was ''poor'' being confined to a few raids. His book is really a plea for a greater role for the cavalry and a lament for what he calls ''sins of omission'' ie cavalry operations which could have been undertaken but which were not owing to insufficient numbers being available. ( He points out that the Japanese were about to double the size of their cavalry to eight divisions). He was not to know, of course, that within a decade of his book''s publication the Great War with its mechanisation would make the age-old arm of the cavalry utterly obsolete. Even so, this book is a fascinating period piece.

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