Cavalry from hoof to track / Roman Jarymowycz ; foreword by General Donn A. Starry.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-266) and index.

Cavalry and the operational art -- The classical horse -- The West in decline: Mongol cavalry -- The medieval cavalry -- Into the Aufklar̈ung: cavalry and the Lace Wars -- Napoleonics, part I: cavalry becomes an operational arm -- Napoleonics, part II: Ulm to Waterloo -- The industrialized warhorse: from Balaclava to Gettysburg -- The warhorse versus technology: from Mars-La-Tour to Little Bighorn: from the Sudan to Manchuria -- Cavalry in the Great War, part I: the golden summer -- Cavalry in the Great War, part II: tactical stalemate and quest for breakthrough -- Mechanization and the cavalry: toward an epiphanic moment -- Cavalry in the Second World WAr, part I: the American apocalypse -- Cavalry in the Second World War, part II: the horse within blitzkrieg -- Cavalry in the Second World War, part III: the Russiawarhorsere and the tank -- Cold warhorse: Pegasus ex Machina -- The warhorse in the nemillenniumum: hoofed and tracked -- The deliquescence of the cavalry.