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The expression "boots on the ground" is an example of synecdoche which has an extended military-jargon history. It certainly dates back at least to British officer Robert Grainger Ker Thompson, strategist of the British counter-insurgency efforts against the Malayan National Liberation Army during the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960 (see entry).
Definition and Citation, Boots on the Ground, Double-Tongued Dictionary; Boots on the Ground, The New York Times Magazine, On Language: Let's Do This, by William Safire, 7 November 2008; Women in the Line of Fire: What You Should Know About Women in the Military, by Erin Solaro; foreword by Volney F. Warner, USA (Ret.), pp. v-vi
"Boots" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection The Five Nations. [1]"Boots" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching in South Africa during the Second Boer War.
Shortly thereafter, the improved 1918 trench boot, also called the "Pershing boot", was first issued to personnel. [1] It used heavier leather in its construction and had several minor changes from the 1917 Boot, including a thicker sole and improved waterproofing. [1]
The German spring offensive, also known as Kaiserschlacht ("Kaiser's Battle") or the Ludendorff offensive, was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during the First World War, beginning on 21 March 1918.
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But the Germans lacked reserves to exploit their initial phenomenal successes, and the Allies moved in enough reserves to bring the offensive to a halt by 6 April. The Germans had advanced up to 40 miles (64 km), had captured 1,500 square miles (3,900 km 2) of ground and 70,000 prisoners, and had inflicted some 200,000 casualties. They had ...
McGrath, John J., Boots on the ground : troop density in contingency operations, Combat Studies Institute, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 2006 Samuels, Martin, Command Or Control?: Command, Training and Tactics in the British and German Armies, 1888–1918 , Routledge, 1995