Why was the massive Human Wave attack used in WWI?
score:13
WWI was a pivotal time in military tactics due to the number of technological advances in warfare that had been relatively unused until that point in time. Machine guns had developed to a point that isn't much different from modern designs; field artillery had gotten a lot bigger, was capable of indirect fire, and had many different munition options; chemical weapons were available; airplanes were starting to become a valuable asset; and mainline infantry was now outfitted with very powerful and accurate repeating rifles. This combined to create a killing power that had previously been unimaginable.
Before this period massive charges were effective because it was possible to close on an enemy with a large force before the enemy could decimate it, allowing you to break their line and limit the effectiveness of their heavy weaponry. It was used so much, because that was the strategy taught to officers at the time, because that is what had historically worked for large armies. Other strategies had largely yet to be implemented, or were similarly useless against new technology.
There actually was a surprising amount of new strategies developed in WWI, some genius others less so. There was a lot of catch-up being played by officers on all sides to devise new strategies for the modern era.
More post
- 📝 Which were the most important ghettos during Holocaust?
- 📝 Status of merchants in feudal Europe
- 📝 Is black American history only about segregation, slavery, and the 3 people you get taught about in school?
- 📝 Can someone identify this banknote?
- 📝 Who considered themselves as "Prussian"?
- 📝 What were the main causal forces leading to rise of fascist movement and fascist government in Germany?
- 📝 Was the average lifespan of a soldier deployed within Stalingrad only 24 hours?
- 📝 Why did Baldwin of Boulogne proclaim Edessa a County, not a Kingdom?
- 📝 Can the current British monarch be overthrown or otherwise replaced?
- 📝 When was divorce made illegal again in Ireland?
- 📝 How reliable is a Maya codex facsimile?
- 📝 What allowed or prevented Roman conquest in terms of population, climate and geography?
- 📝 When did the spherical shape of the Earth become common knowledge?
- 📝 How large were the East India Company armed forces?
- 📝 Who voted against German reunification, and why?
- 📝 Has any losing general in history tried to save his mens' lives by offering to disband, rather than surrender, his army?
- 📝 What acts of violence happened during the Nazi German annexation of Austria in 1938?
- 📝 About how many immigrants were on the Titanic?
- 📝 What systems of opression did colonial South America utilized to acculturate indigenous peoples, compared to the ones used in North America?
- 📝 Why did PvdA and not KVP provide the prime minister in the Kabinet Drees-Van Schaik (1948-1951), despite KVP being the largest party?
- 📝 Why don't people without access to clean water drink beer anymore?
- 📝 Why did the line infantry not use shields in the 18th century?
- 📝 how could japan recover very fast their economy eventhough the two bombs were dropped?
- 📝 Korean DMZ Soldiers
- 📝 Was there ever a war mission where the personnel were instructed to surrender when the mission complete?
- 📝 How to translate runic text not knowing the origin?
- 📝 Has there ever been a direct clash between NATO and Russia?
- 📝 Connection between "lingua franca" and Frankish people
- 📝 Why was the "Cave of the Patriarchs" forbidden to Jews?
- 📝 Are there contemporary records of why flappers used cosmetics to create thin, upturned eyebrows?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Why was the massive Human Wave attack used in WWI?
- 📝 Why did Hitler attack the Soviet Union when he was still busy fighting the United Kingdom?
- 📝 Why was Stalin surprised by the German attack in June 1941?
- 📝 Why was religion used as the basis of Turkey-Greece population exchange instead of language, ethnicity, etc.?
- 📝 Why didn't the WWI Allies attack through the Vosges Mountains after 1915?
- 📝 Why was the German system of interlocking plates not used after WWII for armored vehicle construction?
- 📝 At Pearl Harbor was a Japanese Third Wave of attack in the original plan or was Nagumo expected to improvise?
- 📝 Why the M24 Chaffee was not used as a tank at Dien Bien Phu?
- 📝 Why did archery not make a comeback when armor was phased out in the 18th century?
- 📝 Why was Poland spared from the Black Death?
- 📝 Why didn't Imperial Japan attack the Soviet Union during World War 2?
- 📝 Why was Africa colonized last of the continents in the Age of Discovery?
- 📝 Why didn’t Japan attack the West Coast of the United States during World War II?
- 📝 Why was the Scout movement so successful?
- 📝 Why was the Council of Nicea held in Nicea rather than Rome or Constantinople?
- 📝 Why was World War I ended on Nov 11 11:00, rather than immediately upon signing the armistice?
- 📝 In the Soviet Union, why was the Cheka renamed so many times?
- 📝 Why was "leaping into the river" a valid trial outcome to prove one's innocence?
- 📝 Why was the Japanese Army's fatalities inflicted:suffered ratio so low in the Pacific theatre?
- 📝 Why was capturing the south of Okinawa necessary?
- 📝 Why were the drawings of Colossus burnt after WW2 and why was its very existence "of course" kept secret?
- 📝 Why was there a surge in the US incarceration rate during the 1990s?
- 📝 Why was the Treaty of Versailles so harsh?
- 📝 Why didn't Hannibal attack Rome after the Battle of Cannae?
- 📝 If the Ch’in dynasty was so short-lived, why was China named for it?
- 📝 Why was Switzerland not attacked during the two World Wars?
- 📝 Why did the Japanese expect the United States navy would attack the Home Islands?
- 📝 Why was sugar cultivation more profitable in the Caribbean/Brazil than West Africa?
- 📝 Why weren't army snipers used at the Munich massacre?
- 📝 Why were Royal Navy ships forbidden to attack the ARA Veinticinco de Mayo in Argentinian waters?
