Crossing the Deadly Ground

Download or read book Crossing the Deadly Ground written by Perry D. Jamieson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1994-09-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent of better weapons, the American army learned that massing tight lines of soldiers to attack dug-in defenders would not work as well as it had. Soldiers began to study the issue and develop new field tactics. In 1891 Fort Leavenworth published the first true tactical manual. Not until the advent of the field radio was the problem solved of communicating with troops spread much farther apart.