340 
ON THE 
EMPLOYMENT OF FIELD ARTILLERY 
IN CONNECTION WITH THE OTHER ARMS: 
([Being an Extract from the Austrian u Exerzir Reglement fur die Artillerie.”') 
TRANSLATED BY 
MAJOR BRANCKER, Royal Artillery, 
AND PUBLISHED BY DESIRE OP THE DIRECTOR OP ARTILLERY. 
Fundamental Principles. 
Artillery owes its importance to tlie power of its fire, and to its 
capacity of bringing this fire to bear at ranges beyond those of the 
infantry. The aim should be to reap the full advantages of these 
qualities at the most important points of the line of battle. Artillery 
should act in complete concert with the other arms, and by its activity 
create for them the most favourable conditions of combat. The divi¬ 
sional artillery is an integral part of the infantry division, and can, 
consequently, only be withdrawn from it by express orders of superior 
authority. 
The corps artillery is employed under the direct orders of the officer 
commanding the army corps, who has, however, the power of attaching 
the whole or part of it to any unit of his command. When it is desired 
to produce a decisive effect, as large a number of guns as possible must 
be simultaneously brought into action from a suitable position. 
Artillery should consequently, as a rule, be employed in whole divi¬ 
sions of batteries en masse , and only in exceptional cases by single 
batteries. When no decisive result is aimed at, or when detaching 
guns with small mixed forces, a half-battery, or even a single gun, may 
suffice. It must, however, be taken into consideration that success at 
the decisive point may be endangered by dividing the artillery. 
The greater part of the field artillery is now equipped with the 9 cm 
gun. 
