A General's Letters to His Son on Minor Tactics by Anonymous

Author:Anonymous [Anonymous]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-09-06T22:00:00+00:00

LETTER VI

January 7, 1918.

Problem 5 a

My dear Dick,—

I will set you another problem.

The force to which you belong has made a night march. Your platoon now forms part of a new outpost line. You halted in a ditch at line marked D, with a thin hedge on the enemy’s side of it, which gives you good cover from view. Your idea was to use this place as the headquarters of your picket, and as soon as it was thoroughly light to throw groups out in front. Your platoon consists of forty men and a Lewis gun. Soon after dawn and when your men are still in the trench at D, you see what you take to be a strong platoon of the enemy advancing straight towards you from the north; a couple of groups of men are fifty yards in front, and the remainder of the platoon is advancing in fours along a country road, which passes close to your position. You see the platoon when it is at A about 1,000 yards off.

What action will you take?

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