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• 1 2016-11-27T14:00:30-05:00 The Conduct of the War: Severe Criticism 5 plain 2016-12-14T01:39:12-05:00 Various individual criticisms of the Second Boer War are contained within this piece, ranging from inept generals to the poor marksmanship of the average British soldier. Whoever is submitting these complaints is well informed as to the training regiment of the average British rifleman and feels that this poor ability combined with the shoddy employment of cover is severely weakening the British capacity to wage war. These complaints seem very present throughout a number of articles and all suggest a wide spreading dissatisfaction with British Army’s tendency to lag behind the capacities of its enemies. Much of the Boer weaponry was from foreign, competing nations like America and Germany and the Boers, used to hunting and shooting as a way of life, were able to use these new technologies to great effect. The British, still fumbling out of the days of the Brown Bess and single-loading rifles, were not trained for long distance shooting or adaptive, cover-based fighting.