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Through Mobility We Conquer
The U.S. Cavalry, which began in the nineteenth century as
little more than a mounted reconnaissance and harrying force,
underwent intense growing pains with the rapid technological
developments of the twentieth century. From its tentative
beginnings during World War I, the eventual conversion of the
traditional horse cavalry to a mechanized branch is arguably one of
the greatest military transformations in history. Through Mobility
We Conquer recounts the evolution and development of the U.S.
Army's modern mechanized cavalry and the doctrine necessary to use
it effectively. The book also explores the debates over how best to
use cavalry and how these discussions evolved during the first half
of the century. During World War I, the first cavalry theorist
proposed combining arms coordination with a mechanized force as an
answer to the stalemate on the Western Front. Hofmann brings the
story through the next fifty years, when a new breed of cavalrymen
became cold war warriors as the U.S. Constabulary was established
as an occupation security-police force. Having reviewed thousands
of official records and manuals, military journals, personal
papers, memoirs, and oral histories-many of which were only
recently declassified-George F. Hofmann now presents a detailed
study of the doctrine, equipment, structure, organization, tactics,
and strategy of U.S. mechanized cavalry during the changing
international dynamics of the first half of the twentieth century.
Illustrated with dozens of photographs, maps, and charts,
Through Mobility We Conquer examines how technology
revolutionized U.S. forces in the twentieth century and
demonstrates how perhaps no other branch of the military underwent
greater changes during this time than the cavalry.
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