ABSTRACT

This chapter will explain how the experience of combat between 1914 and 1918 brought about fundamental changes in artillery practice and relationships between the arms. It will show how preoccupation with fire and manoeuvre of infantry gave way to concern for artillery firepower, machine guns, tanks and aircraft and how the art of Command and Control (C2) was seen to lie in the way a commander applied firepower, rather than in the way he deployed foot soldiers.