For centuries, mounted cavalry dominated the battlefield through shock and mobility. Man maintained a symbiotic relationship with the horse, which became particularly sacrosanct on the battlefield and even created a new, exalted social class. These mounted warriors sought to preserve their prestige despite the advent of new technologies threatening to render them obsolete. In Cavalry from Hoof to Track, Roman Jarymowycz traces the evolution of the cavalry from the warhorse to the armored tank and demonstrates how its survival is a history of determined and creative responses to the changing dynamics of modern warfare. Ultimately, he argues, the very concept of cavalry exists as its own state of mind.
The cavalry and its doctrine are misunderstood, and its tactics and operations remain a mystery for many civilians. New technology and the increased integration of the armed forces create the illusion that the cavalry no longer exists as a distinct military entity and philosophy. Jarymowycz clarifies these misconceptions by offering a comprehensible overview while explaining military terminology and outlining basic cavalry principles. The book concludes by suggesting how the cavalry will continue to evolve in response to contemporary third world conflicts, perhaps even reverting to its original, tactical role of close quarter combat.
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Cavalry from Hoof to Track
Table of contents
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Foreword by General Donn A. Starry
- Preface
- 1. Cavalry and the Operational Art
- 2. The Classical Horse
- 3. The West in Decline: Mongol Cavalry
- 4. The Medieval Cavalry
- 5. Into the Aufklärung: Cavalry and the Lace Wars
- 6. Napoleonics, Part I: Cavalry Becomes an Operational Arm
- 7. Napoleonics, Part II: Ulm to Waterloo
- 8. The Industrialized Warhorse: From Balaclava to Gettysburg
- 9. The Warhorse versus Technology: From Mars-La-Tour to Little Bighorn: From the Sudan to Manchuria
- 10. Cavalry in the Great War, Part I: The Golden Summer
- 11. Cavalry in the Great War, Part II: Tactical Stalemate and Quest for Breakthrough
- 12. Mechanization and the Cavalry: Toward an Epiphanic Moment
- 13. Cavalry in the Second World War, Part I: The American Apocalypse
- 14. Cavalry in the Second World War, Part II: The Horse within Blitzkrieg
- 15. Cavalry in the Second World War, Part III: The Russian Warhorse and the Tank
- 16. Cold Warhorse: Pegasus ex Machina
- 17. The Warhorse in the New Millennium: Hoofed and Tracked
- 18. The Deliquescence of the Cavalry
- Notes
- Index
- A photo essay follows page 152
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