Alfred Thayer Mahan, celebrated for his landmark work on sea power, turned his analytical eye to the land campaigns of the Second Boer War in this account of the conflict’s opening year. Drawing on reports and dispatches, Mahan examines British strategy, logistics, and command decisions against the guerrilla tactics of the Boer forces during the critical period 1899-1900.
Mahan’s perspective as a professional military analyst gives the narrative a strategic clarity often missing from journalistic accounts of the war. Download the free EPUB for a perceptive study of British imperial warfare by one of the era’s most influential military thinkers.