The Development of a Stalemate on the Western
Front
by Barry Wright
Essay: The Development of a Stalemate on the Western Front
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The Development of a Stalemate on the Western Front
The main reason trenches developed on the western front is due to the
failure of the Schlieffen plan, if it had not been for this elaborate
quick way to win the war by Germany, trench warfare may never have
developed in WWI. As the Germans were being pushed back from Marne
they had to dig trenches to protect themselves from the advancing
allies, and the allies mirrored them and did the same.
The conventional explanation offered by historians for the stalemate
on the western front (an area stretching from Belgium all the way down
to the Alps) is that by 1914 technology and industrialism had
overtaken military strategy and tactics, making them obsolete.
Supposedly machine guns and rapid-fire artillery had made the
traditional tactics worthless, linear tactics and cavalry charges were
things of the past by 1914, and also bad choices were made by
inexperienced commanders.
It makes one wonder had the British commanders really been clued up to
the art of modern warfare maybe the war might not have been so
disastrous in terms of casualties. Even theorists from previous
warfare had far more reason on their side.
On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 60,000 British soldiers
died due mostly to ignorance but also to the fact that the commanders
On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 60,000 British soldiers
died due mostly to ignorance but also to the fact that the commanders
tended to attack the most strongly defended positions (which were
supposed to have been destroyed by a barrage of artillery lasting a
week), destroyed by shelling or not, this was still not a wise idea.
The British seemed to have, not only an enormous amount of faith in
their own ability but also the skill of hugely underestimating the
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