The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 57
Afghánistán as a Theatre of Operations and as a Defence to India
Contents
- Afghánistán as a Theatre of Operations and as a Defence to India
- [introduction]
- Conditions Imposed By Mountains On Warfare
- Conditions Regulating The Employment Of Fortifications For Strategical Purposes p. 2
- Afghánistán Considered, As A Whole, As A Theatre Of Operations p. 3
- Co-Operation of British And Afghán Forces p. 6
- General Remarks On Operations In Afghánistán And Its Value As A Defence To India p. 7
- I.—Passive Defence Behind The Indus.* p. 12
- II.—Passive Defence Behind the Suleimán Range with the Left Pushed Forward into Peshín p. 13
- III.—Passive Defence Behind the Suleiman Range with the left Pushes Forward into Peshín, Together with the Power of Occupying the Kandahar Province at will p. 14
- IV.—A Line of Works Behind the Indus, Combined with the Occupation of the Provinces of Kábal and Kandahár, and the Perfecting of Communications by Road and Railway with India and Along its Front p. 15
- Force Required to Defend, or to Depend and Hold, Afghánistán p. 17
- Importance Of The Afghan Question To The Australasian States p. 24
- Trans-Frontier Railway Lines p. 26
- 1st or Turkish Section of Thorough route