advancing infantry and provide infantry cover using indirect fire were
brutally efficient in trench raids. All of these advances effectively turned
venturing into the No Man's Land between opposing trenches into a death march
with savage efficiency.
The advantages of the technological improvements were balanced by the expense
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fragile supply and communications lines open. The technologies also meant that
offensive battles had to be quick (to avoid overtaxing resources) and could only
be won by pouring thousands of men willing risk their lives into the breech.
Unfortunately, WWI turned out to be anything but brief and thousands of men died
making short advances into battlelines that became stalled and, literally, entrenched. |
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electric furnace and running off molten steel for casting shells.
The Industrial Revolution with its new methods of steel fabrication, such as this electric furnace for shell castings, meant the enormous appetite for rounds could be satisfied. |
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