"On three, we run really fast at the enemy! Ready? One, two..."
"On three, we run really fast at the enemy! Ready? One, two..."
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As ever so often, if anyone is interested in the gruesome reality behind the funny meme, theres An ACOUP series on just how that situation came to be so inescapable and how WW1 technology wasn't really in a place to break out of the hell of its own making yet.
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The only option left
Well, there was always the strategic option of maintaing a static western European front and winning the war elsewhere. e.g. overwhelming the Russian Empire and then concentrating your troops and using Stosstruppen tactics you've developed in the meantime. But keeping that front static wasn't an option.
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You mean on part of Germany? I believe the French and British were inflicting greater rates of attrition on the German front, so just in terms of manpower, they would have eventually overwhelmed the Germans... but the price in lives would have been so horrendous it was always going to come down whose political base collapses first.
Then again, it has been a while since I read the series, and I'm by no means an expert. Maybe the benefit of hindsight and modern analysis would show ways out of that dilemma that wouldn't have been visible to the commanders at the time – the fog of war was very thick, as far as I can tell.
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My first question: why is there a wooden fence inside a building?
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For hiding behind while playing paintball
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Here's how the pictured situation plays out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWS5MfJUbUg
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Middle Age at least had cavalry charges, this tactic died with the horses
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