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Harald Gormsson's avatar

Hurrah for Colonel Yorck and his troops as that is courage, determination and initiative in action. This underscores the need for continuous and careful reconnaissance for any force, particularly an attacking one, if I ever saw it.

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Terry Tucker's avatar

Great Article! Yorck was a member of Scharnhorsts Militarische Gesellschaft. As was his Chief of Staff Rauch. Scharnhorst advocated a change to infantry tactics to include the light infantry. There are many citations for Yorck in the book the Enlightened Soldier by Dr Charles E White

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Bruce Ivar Gudmundsson's avatar

Thank you. You see through my purpose of setting the stage for a good deal of material about Scharnhorst. Indeed, you may even see some articles on related subjects, penned by Dr. White himself, here on Substack. In the meantime, you may enjoy ...

https://tacticalnotebook.substack.com/p/the-education-of-the-enlightened?

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Terry Tucker's avatar

Thank you Sir! I can’t take such wide sweeping credit. Scharnhorst and Clausewitz are a couple of military rock stars, and Prof White was my favorite of all my mentors

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