Strategy and Tactics of the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1915

The Mexican Revolution started slowly, but after five years major combat operations had spread from the state of Chihuahua to every corner of the nation, drawing in new and varied fighting traditions. The final year of maneuver warfare, 1915, witnessed the largest battles ever to take place on the North American continent, except for the U.S. Civil War.This volume examines the strategies formulated through the Revolution’s many twists and turns, and analyzes the tactics employed in order to explain the rise and fall of Francisco I. Madero, and why and how the Constitutionalists emerged victorious against the armies of Francisco “Pancho” Villa and Emiliano Zapata.