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1 MILITARY ESSAYSAND ARTICLESbyGeorge S. Patton, , Army026051885 19452 MILITARY ESSAYSAND ARTICLESbyGeorge S. Patton, , U. S. Army026051885 1945 Edited byCharles M. ProvincePresident and FounderThe George S. Patton, Jr. Historical Society3116 Thorn StreetSan Diego, California 92104-46183 COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights of Contents1929 CAVALRY DIVISION MANEUVERS, THEARMORED CARS WITH CAVALRYTHE ARMY AT THE NATIONAL HORSE SHOWCAVALRY WORK OF THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITIONCAVALRYMAN, THECHRISTY CAR, THECOURSE AT THE ARMY WAR COLLEGECOMMENTS ON CAVALRY TANKS DEFENSE OF THE SABER, ADESERT TRAINING CORPS, THEEFFECT OF WEAPONS ON WAR, THEFEDERAL TROOPS IN DOMESTIC DISTURBANCESFORM AND USE OF THE SABER, THETHIRD ARMY LETTERS OF INSTRUCTION.

2 MILITARY ESSAYS AND ARTICLES by George S. Patton, Jr. General, U. S. Army 02605 1885 – 1945 Edited by Charles M. Province President and Founder The George S. Patton, Jr. Historical Society

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1 1 MILITARY ESSAYSAND ARTICLESbyGeorge S. Patton, , Army026051885 19452 MILITARY ESSAYSAND ARTICLESbyGeorge S. Patton, , U. S. Army026051885 1945 Edited byCharles M. ProvincePresident and FounderThe George S. Patton, Jr. Historical Society3116 Thorn StreetSan Diego, California 92104-46183 COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights of Contents1929 CAVALRY DIVISION MANEUVERS, THEARMORED CARS WITH CAVALRYTHE ARMY AT THE NATIONAL HORSE SHOWCAVALRY WORK OF THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITIONCAVALRYMAN, THECHRISTY CAR, THECOURSE AT THE ARMY WAR COLLEGECOMMENTS ON CAVALRY TANKS DEFENSE OF THE SABER, ADESERT TRAINING CORPS, THEEFFECT OF WEAPONS ON WAR, THEFEDERAL TROOPS IN DOMESTIC DISTURBANCESFORM AND USE OF THE SABER, THETHIRD ARMY LETTERS OF INSTRUCTION.

2 Letter of Instruction No. of Instruction No. 2 Letter of Instruction No. 3 Letter of Instruction No. 4 LIGHT TANK REPORTLOS ANGELES COLISEUM SPEECHMECHANIZATION AND CAVALRYMECHANIZED FORCESMOTORIZATION AND MECHANIZATION IN THE CAVALRYMOUNTED SWORDSMANSHIPPROBABLE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEXT WAR, THENOTES ON COMBAT ARMORED DIVISIONSNOTES ON TACTICS AND TECHNIQUE OF DESERT WARFARENOTES ON THE DESIRABILITY OF UNIVERSAL SERVICEOBLIGATION OF BEING AN OFFICER, THEPATTON'S POETRYPATTON'S BEST QUOTESPERSONAL EXPERIENCES IN THE TANK CORPSPERSONAL GLIMPSES OF GENERAL PERSHINGPRESENT SABER.

3 USE FOR WHICH IT WAS DESIGNED, THEREPORT OF OPERATIONS OF THE ARMY POLO TEAM OF 1922 SECRET OF VICTORY, THESOME NOTES ON THE EFFECT OF WEAPONSSUCCESS IN WARTACTICAL USE OF SEPARATE TANK BATTALIONSTANKS IN FUTURE WARSTANKS, PAST AND FUTURETRAINING MEMORANDA TO HIS REGIMENTVICTORY IN EUROPE SPEECHWAR AS SHE ISWHAT THE WORLD WAR DID FOR CAVALRYWHY MEN FIGHTBRITISH PATTON SOCIETY SPEECH (CHARLES M. province ; 11/11/90)56 THE 1929 CAVALRY DIVISION MANEUVERSBy Major George S. Patton, Jr., CavalryCavalry Journal1930It is more difficult to write of a maneuver than to judge a horse show.

4 In horse shows one securesa friend with each blue ribbon; in maneuvers there are no blue , however, the guilelessness which induces one to accept either the judging or the writing jobmust spring from a forthright mind, we shall try to make our remarks as brief and opposite as areour the horrid events of October, 1929, leading to and culminating in the Corps Command PostExercises were arranged so as to follow the probable course of a campaign in which the Brownswere the invading Etruscans and the Whites the defending two first situations centered around attempts of the invaders to cover the loading andwithdrawal of large quantities of stolen property from areas along the railway east and west of ElPaso.

5 Special interest is attached to these operations because they were so drawn as to bring out therelative strategic and tactical mobility of two forces the defenders composed of dismounted porteecavalry and armored cars, while the attackers were normal results seemed to us completely to accord with the reported remarks of a French officercommanding portee dragoons to the effect that; Their strategic mobility was excellent; theirtactical mobility zero. In the third and fourth situations, the Whites had to employ cavalry and armored cars in offensivedefensive operations.

6 In the third situation this took the form of an attempt to delay two Brownunits approaching Fort Bliss from the southeast and north. In the fourth problem the Browns hadto delay the Whites in order to permit a convoy to traverse a next two situations the fifth and sixth gave a chance for two cavalry brigades, each withartillery and armored cars attached, to try their mettle in the attack and defense of Filmore Whites in each case being the the seventh phase it fell to the Second Brigade Whites to hold a bridgehead over the Rio Grandeat Mesquite against the attack of the First Brigade eighth phase was to have been a division in attack, dismounted.

7 Using ball the intervention of Napoleon's fifth element (mud) in the particularly adhesive formprevalent in the southwest, prevented the staging of this came the division on the defensive against an outlined , finally, the maneuvers ended with a twenty-four hour Corps Command Post Exercise inwhich some physiological change having occurred, each headquarters, down to the regiment,found itself suddenly translated into the next higher sphere of the MILITARY is quite patent, though seldom admitted, that being human we are purpose of maneuvers is to show up these errors.

8 To plow as it were, the hardpan of our selfcomplacency so as to admit the sunlight of experience in the hope of germinating some seeds ofadded essaying the role of the plow mentioned in the above paragraph we claim no infallibility ofunderstanding and simply state our personal opinions as to the lessons CARSDue to the fact that these exercises marked the debut of the armored car in maneuvers with ourcavalry, it is probable that the machines attracted more than their due share of attention. Yet it isundeniable that they put up a splendid performance and that the officers and men manning themdeserve the greatest praise.

9 Their ability for delaying actions was most marked; while, due to thefact that most of the Texas roads are unditched and unfenced, they were able to leave them withmore facility than will usually be the case. Another local characteristic which induced some to overvalue their performance lay in the fact that in dry weather the plains of the southwest can be quitereadily traversed by wheeled vehicles so that in many cases the cars assumed the duties of lighttanks and performed them in a most efficient invisibility was surprising. On one occasion a number of observers, hearing firing, searcheda slope some 800 yards distant with their glasses, but could only locate several clumps of , one of these clumps rolled out of view.

10 It was an absolutely uncamouflaged principal lesson learned with respect to fighting against armored cars is that, since they go beston roads, the best place to fight them is off the lesson was that in rolling country they possess considerable ability to support the attack ofmounted or dismounted cavalry with oblique to cover their withdrawal by the use of smoke emitted from the car were disappointing,due probably to the everlasting wind and treeless nature of the country. Further experiment inwooded or hedged country may well prove the value of such screening had a tendency to over value the effect of moving fire from cars.


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