MILITARY TACTICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 51, 9 June 1910, Page 3

MILITARY TACTICS

-MAJOR M ALOXE'S COURSE OF LECTURES. The following is a synopsis of a lecture lo be delivered by .Ma jor Malone at the Technical School, -Xew Plymouth, on Friday, on "Mobilisation, Inter-communi-cation, and Orders":— Mobilisation.—Peace to war footing pkces; depots; first and other days; place of assembly; war stations; field force; garrisons; peace and war establishments; first reinforcements :■ war outfit; equipment, personal, regimental and special; service ammunition:: supplies, stores; "battalion company onk-vs; transport; rations; cooks. Inter-communication. -Urgent y important base of co-operation; responsibility of subordinate commanders of all ranks'; duties of- commander* :■ up-down-round; head-quarters; position's of commander and subordinates during an action; mt'ans,' wireless,- cable and line telegraph, .telephones.' visual signalling, lielio,' liiihp; di<e,- (kg, scmipliore messages.; Orders'.—Mse of success of all operations; chain of command; knowledge by subordinates of intention of commander; preliminary measures; modern tactics; dissolution of ordinary tactical formation; impossibility of personal control by commander; actual leading by subordinates; characteristics, clearness, conciseness, completeness; form, heading, separate numeration, distribution of copies, numbered -paragraphical division, marginal notation of subjects, signature, issue. CLASSES: STANDIXII ORDERS, OPERATION. ORDERS, ROUTINE ORDERS. Standing orders and routine orders. — Military economy, all matters other than strategical and tactical operations. Operation orders—Marches, -protection, occupation of quarters, reconnaissance and battle; services of maintenance; supply transport, ammunition, mecticai, etc.; general principle. •'Every officer his job, with free hand to carry it out"; contents; general situation; intention of officer commanding issuing order; instructions, place to which reports to 'he sent; position when necessary of officer commanding; sub-operation orders by subordinates; departure from orders; principles. Rules for drawing up orders.—Written or verbal; confirmation in writing; legible, not a word too much, not a syllable ■wanting, comprehensible by meanest intellect; answers questions, from whom,! to whom, when, where; noon, midnight, ■night; .places and persons in block ca.oi- 1 tals; naming units; map reference; compass bearings; issue in time: duplication of important orders and carriage by more than one officer by different routes.