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CAN GERMANY INVADE ENGLAND?
subsequent land operations. There should also be a strong position at a convenient distance from the beach, the occupation of which would give some security to the army, whilst engaged in the complicated process of landing.
Now, no beach on the east coast of England answers to this description; but a German army corps on the march, with its first and second lines of transport, stretches 32 miles[1]; consequently each army corps would require a road to itself,[2] and what
- ↑ On a good high-road, a German Army Corps in ordinary order of march would cover 32 miles, exclusive of intervals between echelons, that is, intervals between the larger units of the Army, and those between the combatants and the first and second lines of transport:
25 Battalions of Infantry, 6 Squadrons of Cavalry, and 24 Batteries of Artillery cover 15½ miles First line of Transport, Ammunition and Supply Columns 12½ ,, Second Line of Transport 4½ ,, Total 32¾ See Duties of the General Staffs by General Bronsart von Schellendorff, pp. 349, 350,
- ↑ Without taking into account the second line of transport, which would be left in rear, an army corps with
