"Military technology favoured defence." Plan
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- "Military technology favoured defence."
- Reluctant to back down: due to heavy casualties
- Didn't want the injured and the died bodies to be all for nothing
- Development of trench warfare
- Protected by massive barbed-wire entanglements and machine guns
- Next 3 years - trenches shored up with timber, sandbags and deep concrete dugouts built
- PROBLEM: 1915 no B or F attack managed to gain more than 5kms of land
- Troops gained protection of firepower
- By 1915 - key element of defence of war
- Protected by massive barbed-wire entanglements and machine guns
- Large amounts of man power
- Despite the heavy casualties the large armies contributed to the unlimited sample of man power
- All of the powers expect for Britain had conscription
- Failure of war plans
- Aug 1914: Schliffen Plan
- G. had to adopted another defensive strategy
- Thought Russia - slow to mobilise
- Go through Belgium to avoid F defences and defeat F. in 3 weeks
- Then focus attention on Russia's army
- Only 30 miles away from Paris - If plan achieved war outcome could be differently
- G. had to adopted another defensive strategy
- Aug 1914: Plan 17
- Take Alsace-Lorraine - replaced by huge casualties
- Partly failed due to the successful change in German defensive
- French plan to make frontal attack on G. if war broke out
- Aug 1914: Schliffen Plan
- Reluctant to back down: due to heavy casualties
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