Re: Blood and Iron

Grand Strategy was a concept few in history were truly adept at. Bruno, however, was operating on a macro scale. Overseeing and micromanaging multiple theaters of war, all while using the limited communications technology of the early 20th century to do so.

GPS was not a thing, nor were cellar telephones, the internet? If Bruno spoke of such things in this day and age, he might as well be forcing himself to undergo a lobotomy at an insane asylum. It was not like he could access a personal end-user device, and instantly send orders to an entire company of soldiers, informing them of where, when, and how to attack.

However, with his more modern understanding of warfare, especially mobile warfare. Bruno had introduced some specialized troops to the battlefield. While Special Forces were a concept mostly derived as a result of lessons learned from the second world war. One man in this world ultimately knew better.

It wasn't exactly possible to create a highly mobile unit to deploy across the world at any given time to act as the spearhead of his army. Intercontinental transport planes were a dream of the distant future, and helicopters were an idea that nobody had even conceived up until this point.

Whereas creating specialized forces to go deep behind enemy lines, where their objective was to arm, train, and incite insurrection was not exactly the most useful asset to Bruno at the moment, as those most likely to cause problems for France, and Britain were tomorrow's enemies.

Having learned from the repeated mistakes of the CIA and the United States Government as a whole in his past life, who more often than not created two enemies whenever they decided to start a civil war in some adversarial country across the world, Bruno had no current use for such special operations units.

But what he could very well use were Special Reconnaissance soldiers, who specialized in infiltrating deep behind enemy lines, where they provided intelligence on enemy positions to combined arms units, as well as coordinating artillery and air strikes upon their rivals on the battlefield.

In this regard, Bruno had actually repurposed the old Jäger units within his 8th Army and forced them to undergo a far more strict, and admittedly cruel form of training. Jäger companies had been specialized units attached to larger German armies for centuries.

Their role was primarily as light infantry, scouts, and skirmishers. Making them more ideal towards the current role Bruno had in mind for them. However, with the prominence of trench warfare, the Imperial German Army had more or less merged their Jäger units with more traditional infantry units.

Bruno, however, as a man with memories of the 21st century, saw a new role for these traditional scouts, and that was more or less a far more advanced role than they previously had. Because of this, there were a group of men within the mountains of Kosovo dressed in unusual uniforms, and with painted faces as they hid in the darkness of night, with their scoped rifles in wait.