Description

The k.u.k. War College was the highest military facility to educate, instruct, train, and develop general staff officers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was located in Vienna, and active from 1852 to 1918.

This is a collection of battle scenarios for officer instruction at the War College in the years leading up to World War I, and thus provide an insight into how Austro-Hungarian officers were trained just prior to the Great War. Of interest to us was the substantial coverage given to Japanese battle formations as training for Austro-Hungarian officers.

The scenarios generally provide a history of the battle followed by a timeline of the advances and retreats and are supplemented by maps showing troop positions.

The detailed topics include:

Occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878; rebellion in Herzegovina 1882; battle of Kumano in October 1912; march of the Serbian division through Albania in 1912; troops led by Hauptmann von Vivenot in 1866; History of the Austrian Cavalry including the march to Berlin in 1757; Infantry battle of Bruville in 1870; the fight for Le Bourget in 1870; the battle at Lovca in 1877; Infantry battle of St. Privat in 1870; cavalry battles of the Russian-Japanese war; battle of Gustozza in 1866; cavalry brigade Pulz and Bujanovics in 1866; battle of New-Rogritz, Rudersdorf in 1866; battles of Jicin in 1866; fundamentals of structuring a military; introduction to batallion stuctures; examples of preparing for defense overnight during battle engagement; Japanese battle formations of 1904; attacks of the 5th Japanese infantry brig. by Mukden in 1905; the battle of Tjurentschön (falling to the Japanese); Boer war (South Africa) 1899; battle at Modde River (South Africa) 1899.

Price: $2250

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