Confident, however, in their adaptability and in their power of initiative under novel conditions, I did not hesitate to prescribe, for this second phase of the battle, the adoption of the principles and methods of open warfare.
The decision which I had to take of carrying out the second phase of this great battle on the principles of open warfare was, therefore, one which also involved a certain element of risk.
To begin with, only that portion of the Artillery which is in the strictest sense mobile can participate to any extent in open warfare.
As for the gladiators, those tigers in human form, it were surely better for them to perish in open warfare, than to tear one another to pieces in the arena, like the very beasts against which I have seen them pitted.
Although he is sufficiently hungry, having been kept for more than a day without food, it is not his nature to carry on an open warfare.
In previous wars, cavalry played a heroic role in open warfare; only rarely has it been possible to use cavalry in the Great War.
Tactics had been suddenly revolutionized to those of open warfare, and our men, confident of the results of their training, were eager for the test.
The great captains of old times, who decided that long spells of open warfare in winter were impossible, were not fools.
From the morning of the 23rd open warfare developed, from the moment the enemy, as happened early, had driven the 14th Division back from the Canal de St. Quentin at Jussy.
These imperturbable Scots left their trenches in the morning delighted at the prospect of once more engaging in open warfare.
And, more than that, they had to prepare to apply the art of open warfare to the full extent of their powers.
But the XXIst Corps could congratulate itself that, notwithstanding two months of open warfare, often fifty to sixty miles from railhead, men's rations had never been reduced.
Usually a march of five miles in each direction to and from the training ground was involved and the exercise itself was almost invariably the "Attack in Open Warfare.
These poles served admirably in open warfare, but proved to be impracticable for the static conditions of fighting in France.
Some of our officers and men had met German machine-gun practice in open warfare in the Château-Thierry campaign and at the British front.
Open warfare called to him from the free sweep of the landscape.
The following questions cover the principles of combat in open warfare.
What does trench warfare correspond to in open warfare?
It is improbable that in this war trench warfare will definitely give place on all sectors of the front to open warfare.
In some respects the Germans were quicker than ourselves to adapt themselves to conditions approximating to open warfare.
This march of eight miles, coming after a four days' tour in wet trenches under conditions of open warfare, proved a trying experience.
From a cause such as every series of complicated operations inopen warfare threatened to introduce, the troops of the 4th Division on our right failed to co-operate as we expected.
We had, however, entered the state of open warfare, and we soon began to realise its disadvantages.
The dead had not all been buried, and sometimes the searcher would discover a man who must have been long in dying--open warfare is not pleasant for those who fall wounded in hidden places.
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