Warfare
Brigade
A major tactical formation that typically comprises three to six battalions plus supporting elements, roughly an enlarged regiment. Two or more brigades may constitute a division.
Mentioned in
- Chapter I The Long Fuse §2 Vienna and the Concert of Europe, 1815–1856
- Chapter III The War of Movement §2 Liège: The Forts, Ludendorff and Big Bertha§8 The Aisne, the Race to the Sea and First Ypres
- Chapter IV Deadlock §3 Second Ypres and the First Gas Attack
- Chapter V The Year of Attrition §9 The Somme II: From Bazentin to the Ancre
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions §10 Baghdad, Beersheba and Jerusalem
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble §3 Operation Michael: The Kaiser's Battle§5 The Americans Arrive, and the Second Marne§7 The Hundred Days: Breaking the Hindenburg Line
- Chapter VIII The Reckoning and the Remaking §6 Germany's Troubled Birth: From Weimar to the Putsch
- Chapter IX In the Trenches §7 Shell Shock, Courts-Martial and the Men Who Were Shot
- Chapter X The Machinery of War §6 The Learning Curve: From Lines to Combined Arms
- Chapter XIII A World on Fire §6 The Empires' Soldiers