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Jan 30, 2023Liked by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

My great grandfather was in the Guard Cuirassiers during WW1!

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Jan 30, 2023Liked by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Question; weren’t some of these jager/ cavalry formations converted/ retrained to become the “sturm battalions”?

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Jan 30, 2023Liked by Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson

Semi-relatedly, you sometimes see Douglas Haig vilified, inter alia, for keeping cavalry formations intact, thereby "wasting" human and material assets that could have been more fruitfully fed into the infantry meatgrinder. But it always seemed to me that Haig always hoped to break through and restore a war of movement, and the ONLY asset he had that could do that would be his cavalry formations. Perhaps that was never possible. But if the Allies ever did manage to shear open a passage through the German front, cavalry ranging into their rear area could have outsized effect. Query whether prior to March 1918 there was any thought given on the German side to using cavalry to penetrate into the British rear area in the event that a breakthrough was achieved. I don't believe anything of the sort was tried.

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