Excerpt from Selected Translations Pertaining to the Boer War: April 1, 1905
Translated by Lieut. Clarence O. Sherrill, Corps of Engineers, for the Second Divi sion, General Staff U. S. Army, from the Revue Militaire des Armées Etrangeres for August, 1903.
The events of the Transvaal have been frequently held out as a series of new and unexpected facts, demonstrating the folly of the present methods of fighting. It has been said that the frontal attack is impossible, even with greatly superior forces. Success was only expected with flanking movements, with a wide extension of the wings, threatening the flank, the rear, or, better still, the communications of the enemy.
Strategical Offensive, tactical defensive was the secret of success.
The present methods used by European infantries met a sudden check and had to be entirely transformed.
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