A Flying Column was the name given to mobile armed units of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence 1919-1921. This article needs copyediting (checking for proper English spelling, grammar, usage, etc. ... The term War of Independence is generally use to describe a war occurring after a territory that has declared independence. ...
At first he appears to have disapproved of the conquest, but his undeviating adherence to Louis Philippe brought him into agreement with the government, and with his customary decision he proposed to employ at once whatever forces were necessary for the swift, complete and lasting subjugation of Algeria.
Later events proved the soundness of his views; in the meantime Bugeaud was sent to Africa in a subordinate capacity, and proceeded without delay to initiate his war of flyingcolumns.
Finally, in 1840, he was nominated governor-general of Algeria, and early in 1841 he put into force his system of flyingcolumns.
A flyingcolumn, in military organization pre-dating World War I, is an independent corps of troops usually composed of all arms, to which a particular task is assigned.
The mobile columns employed by the British in the South African War of 1899-1902, were usually of the strength of two battalions of infantry, a battery of artillery, and a squadron of cavalry almost exactly half that of a mixed brigade.
Flyingcolumns are mostly used in guerrilla warfare.
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