http://www.afrikastudiecentrum.nl/Pdf/w ... aper60.pdf
For many years the standard work for soldiers involved in “Small Wars”, that is colonial wars, could do no better than read the standard work on the subject by Sir Charles Edward Callwell, entitled simply enough, Small wars: their principles and practice. Published in 1906, whilst the Herero and Nama war against Germany was still raging, Small Wars explicitly makes mention, not only of British wars against the Marathas and Sikhs in India, but also of the lessons learnt in the Boer war of 1900 – 1902, as well as the ongoing wars being fought by the Germans against the Herero and Nama in Namibia. At this stage it would be at least another year before the official German war history of the Herero war was to be published under the authority of von Schlieffen. For their part German soldiers, preparing for service in the colonies and overseas territories were referred to the work of Hauptmann Kurd Schwabe published in 1903, a year prior to the outbreak of the Herero-German war.
Kurd Schwabe originally travelled to Namibia as a Schutztruppler with von Francois.In 1900 Schwabe volunteered for service in China, and it was upon his return from China that he drew up, Dienst und Kriegsführung in den Kolonien und auf überseeischen Expeditionen. As with Callwell, Schwabe drew on the past, and referred to lessons learnt in Congo, China, Cuba, Abyssinia, India, the Boer War, East and West Africa. As with British forces who read Callwell, German forces who read Schwabe would have considered themselves well-informed with regard to war.
More on Schwabe here:
http://www.klausdierks.com/Biographies/ ... hies_S.htm
Schwabe, Kurd
* 14.11.1866 at Münster, Germany
+ 09.1920 at Berlin, Germany
First entry to Namibia: 1893
Last departure from Namibia: 1910
Kurd Schwabe was born on 14.11.1866 at Münster in Germany. He was a military officer and author. He joined the Prussian Army in 1886. He came to Namibia in 1893, as a lieutenant, to assist von François against Hendrik Witbooi. Subsequently he seems to have played a role in all campaigns against Witbooi, as well as in the War against the Ovambanderu in 1896. Schwabe left the country in 1897, fought in China during 1900 and 1901 to suppress the Yihotuan rising ("Boxer rebellion"), and was back in Namibia to fight the Ovaherero in 1904. He then joined the General Staff in Berlin as an expert on colonial warfare, resigned in 1908 and began to publish books dealing with his various assignments. He was very active in colonial organisations, i.a. as a founding member of the "Kolonialkriegerdank" support organisation for former colonial soldiers. In the course of an extended Africa trip in 1910 he briefly visited Namibia again. He took up active service once more during World War One and led a German military mission to Germany's ally Turkey in the Middle East, where he contracted a hepatitis which led to his early death in September 1920 in Berlin.
