"Military technology favoured defence." Essay plan 2
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- "Military technology favoured defence."
- Attrition warefare
- Military strategy: belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse
- Through continuous losses in personnel and materiel.
- 1916: Battle of Verdun
- Erich von Falkenhayn
- Described as wanting to "bleed France white"
- Military strategy: belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse
- Military technology
- Creeping Barrage
- PROBLEM: Generally failed - over a relatively large area.
- E.G. The Somme
- PROBLEM: Relied upon too heavily
- E.G. Battle of the Marne 5 Sep 1917.
- Slow moving artillery attack - acting as a defensive curtain for infantry following closely behind.
- To bypass the problems of trench warfare & solution for stalemate
- Go on for hours, days, with the aim of destroying everything.
- Seize land - undefended, either because enemy dead or in bunkers.
- PROBLEM: Generally failed - over a relatively large area.
- 1916: Howitzer
- Called 'Big Berthas'
- Developed by Germans
- Could fire shell weighing almost (tone)
- Creeping Barrage
- Attrition warefare
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