Chapter 26: Impressing a Veteran of the Old Guard

Bruno remained silent for some time. He was asked about the primary enemy of the Reich. It was no secret that bad blood existed between the French and the Germans. It was a rivalry that was as old as time itself.

But Bruno was silently debating with himself whether he should answer his honest opinion, or blow smoke up the instructor's ass. No doubt by the look of his cavalry uniform, and the fancy medals pinned to his chest the old timer was a war hero. But Cavalrymen utterly refused to admit that their style of warfare had long since been obsolete.

Cavalry regiments still existed even now among all major European Powers, and that was despite them having been proved utterly ineffective in the Crimean War nearly fifty years prior. With the prominence of machine guns that would occur in the coming days, at best cavalry could be used as scouts, that is until mechanization entirely replaced them.