Re:What World War I Can Teach Us about Misjudging Tech and S...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @07:21PM
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> The American Civil War demonstrated the horrors of trench warfare back in the 1860s.
While a number of conflicts (as well as the ACW, the Maori Wars in New Zealand and the Crimean War are among the more frequently cited) involved large scale trench system and some of the other elements that, in combination, characterize “trench warfare”, they didn't involve large scale deployment of machine guns and rapid firing artillery, and some of the other aspects that planners leading into WWI did not fully account for (or even completely misjudged e
the direction of effect on successful tactics.)
While a number of conflicts (as well as the ACW, the Maori Wars in New Zealand and the Crimean War are among the more frequently cited) involved large scale trench system and some of the other elements that, in combination, characterize “trench warfare”, they didn't involve large scale deployment of machine guns and rapid firing artillery, and some of the other aspects that planners leading into WWI did not fully account for (or even completely misjudged e the direction of effect on successful tactics.)