![]() ![]() ![]() New offensive tactics brought short victories followed by bloody defeats as the defensive caught up in an endless cycle of innovations and counters.Īnd yet despite all this, the stalemate of trench warfare was still going on…Īt 4.40 in the morning a violent barrage fell on the lines held by the British 5th Army. There had been no shortage of ingenuity when it came to finding new ways of killing the enemy, from heavy howitzers to flamethrowers and poison gas. Planes brought warfare to a new dimension, and the tank had made its entrance on the scene. The glorious rifle-armed battalions of 1914 charging through the wheat fields of northern France had given way to small squads of specialists armed with grenades and light machineguns, crawling from cover to cover in the mud of no man’s land. War though never changed so much in so little time. The Western front changed little on the map since the Entente’s armies had stopped the German onslaught on the Marne river in September 1914. ![]()
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