Show y its the same old warl ey by cp capt richard 1 kennedi its the same old warl war the basic principles never changed change only the methods change the same battle order with which Harin hannibal ibal won the battle of candae won the second battle of the marne for foi marshal foch roman columnist of his day after a careful study of all fhe e great battles up to and including the ath century decided that there were but seven systems of battle A study of Ve getius selections shows that four faur of them were innovations of the other three therefore there were and are but three basic orders of battle as follows 1 thi the parallel order 2 the oblique order 3 the enveloping ve order however years before Ve getius tius was doing his stuff on the roman daily mirror sun tzu famous chinese generalissimo had prescribed the basic rules of warfare these basic r ules rules are the same as prescribed fo for r our armed forces today and will probably win the tunisian affair for gentral eisenhower mechanized cavalry new by a long shot rameses II 11 introduced it in egypt when he invented the chariot and tanks tanka china used armored carts as far back as 1200 B C the ancient persians introduced the elephant tank elephants protected by armor with large scythe like weapons attached to their trunks for mowing down enemy troops equipped with turrets on their backs from which arche archers rs could fire and the large scaling towers of the romans romani were built on wheels and rolled like tanks to their objectives chemical warfare was practiced rac alced by the greeks in B C they mixed incense sulphur pitch and faggots maggots ina a pot ignited same and threw them into the ranks of the deiny enemy these were the first known incendiary bombs history shows thai tha dan genghis ghis khan khan used smoke screens extensively clyto to cover his maneuvers i avers WALTER WINCHELL on a a our ur of el sitf t 0 belld U talde continental U S Durla durgiai glis his b contributors will substitute hand grenades were used by the egyptians as far back as B C they consisted of boxes in which vipers were secreted these were thrown into the enemy lines and the romans invented the granddaddy of the molotov cock cocktail tall leori consisting of crude oil in a bottle the roman doughboys dough boys would ignite the oil then heave the grenade against ag ainest the weak point the smashing odthe of the bottle would scatter liquid fire in all directions we hear a great deal about war decorations these days the fir first st known record of a public presentation of a decoration for bravery occurred in the first century when the emperor of china decorated one of his subjects for bravery above and beyond the call of duty hash marks came into vogue in the continental army in the form of a strip of white cloth sewn to the shoulder of the uniform each strip of cloth represented three years of service we wd get the word chevron from the french 11 chevre 1 11 meaning a goat probably beca because ii se the inverted chevron of the french troops reser rUled goats horns our word colonel Is derived from the latin colonna meaning a column and indicating the colonel was commander of a column t the corporals chevrons che date back to the middle ages when cheh the artisans who worked on the construction of a castle were permitted to wear two inverted Vs representing the castle roof as a distinction 44 rifle grenades were used rt the siege of stettin in 1677 and the men assigned to firing the grenades were known as grenadiers grena diers Ca an italian was experimenting with pistols bayba cleffi in 1540 and the first bomb was invented by another italian named Bondo in 1588 1588 A form of shrapnel was used by the th e british at the battle of crecy and the for forerunner grunner of our present rifle sight was a martof each crossbow chaplains da plains are not new in fahe the army each Christ christiaa leA knight during the crusades brought alon ghis own on private printe chaplain oliver cromwell recruited al a regiment of cavalry known as the old ironsides most members of which were clarky clergymen mcp bishop leonidas polk an outstanding tang southern clergyman rose to the rank of general in inthe the confederate te army As regards the signal Si final corps caesar sent back to rome via 6 carrier a r pigeon the reports of all his gallic ca campaigns and we all know the th tory story of the runner who reported the battle of marathon in B C then dropped dead true there were no planes before century but the ancient persians had an aar ar blitz all their own they nad trained falcons falconi which would swoop down and scratch out the eyes of the enemy troops the greeks persians egyptians and Chal deans all used military maps |