Yeah but Mons was the opening weeks of the war before the entrenchment and stagnancy on both sides. In some respects it was one of the last battles of the old t

Yeah but Mons was the opening weeks of the war before the entrenchment and stagnancy on both sides. In some respects it was one of the last battles of the old tactics, still fighting the last war. A cavalry action in 1917 would have been pointless slaughter. Mind, so were most of the infantry advances. Horses were used as transport, and lugging around field guns throughout the war - they were more capable than vehicles in the conditions. Those were supplemented with the narrow gauge trench railways. Internal combustion wasn't yet up to replacing all those uses.