The First World War | 'War of attrition', was that inevitable?

War is a test site of violence and madness that emanates meaning war itself, and advanced technology, cruelly due to the fact that it is the driving force to develop and realize the technology, the historical third From the standpoint of a person, there is no choice but to excite. Not only does First World War do not deviate considerably from such facts, but here it is not disgraceful such as the first world war in human history, the first total warfare, the first war beyond the number of battle casualties soldiers Some of the titles also took on rats.

Even without knowing that First World War had started as a means of achieving the political · diplomatic objectives of each country, the battle became intense, many casualties occurred, people leave the control of reason The awakened blind, which is dominated by anger and hatred going up, has become awakened, and the war has become a monster with huge attraction like a black hole as a war itself. This war was not a means, it itself was the purpose, evaporating all the boiling blood of all the participating countries. As the physical laws of the universe made a black hole which can not escape any existence of the universe including light, the history the human race and madness gathered has made a whirlpool of warfare.

Why did the First World War be driven by a war of attrition, a long war, which destroyed all the spiritual and material energies of the participating countries?

The First World War was largely divided into the West Battlefield, the Eastern Front, the Mediterranean Front, etc., among which the greatest ground was taken on the Western Front where the direction of winning and losing of the First World War was determined 『First World War: the War to End All Wars by Peter Jukes, Geoffrey Hickey, Michael Simkins』 The reason why First World War has prolonged to a War of attrition is that it is not necessarily inevitable that only the initiator is a strategic target with ignorance of tactical premature and total warfare of general and officers who performed duties at each front It takes the idea of ​​man-made disaster that brought about the confusion between tactical goals and lack of preparations for national warfare ability.

Even though contemporary weapons such as trains, flame radiators, poison gas, airplanes, etc. have appeared, as the means of transportation was dominated by pre-modern cattle, horses, dogs, etc., a considerable proportion, each wire There was a pre-modern element still in the concepts of the general and officer tactics and war who commanded. In this way, in the transient period beyond Modern Warfare, the old-fashioned way of thinking has an adverse effect on the above-mentioned parts and tactical flexibility suitable for new weapons, and in the battle it is natural to see the infantry sacrifice naturally Brought the number of casualties and injuries. Furthermore, the national burden of the first total warfare which mobilized all the competence of the nation called for confusion and insufficiency in terms of war support and dissemination such as ammunition, food, conscription, transportation, so the participating countries contradict war I had no choice but to take him.

The above immaturity and insufficiency of spread is also that Britons can not maintain the momentum of attack early in the offensive until midnight and bring chronic problems that frequently miss opportunities to skip decision strikes, We made a lot of casualties and prisoners in vain for the progress of the strategy. The German army missed the strategic goal of Japnaura former tactical opportunity encountered encountered in an unexpected situation. In other words, I missed the definitive opportunity of multiple times that made a mistake in incurring a great loss by pursuing a small profit.

Finally, is it because the German army is an alliance army? It is only on the Allied Forces side to investigate the records left by the participating soldiers and the citizens of the participating countries who want to convey the disaster of war more realistically and lively. There is no difference in the hardships and sufferings experienced by citizens and soldiers of all countries who participated in the war in allied forces and allied forces, but unfortunately, this book is such that such details are inclined to Allied side ing. Even though there is no eyesore's prejudice and blurring in this book, I like to see the record left by the allied soldiers and the records left by the citizens of the allies together From the perspective of comparative history, better results come out It is unsatisfactory whether there was nothing left. Still, this book, written by three authors who outlined the origin and results of the outbreak of the First World War, is an irreplaceable decent book in the First World War Tutorial.

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