Timeline for Where is the bloodiest square mile on Earth?
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| Jun 13, 2018 at 3:42 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Schwern: Unprepared is one thing. Launching attack after attack when all you accomplish is running up your casualty count is failing to learn from experience. | |
| Jun 11, 2018 at 18:19 | comment | added | Schwern | @jamesqf While there is plenty of stupidity to go around, the more I study WWI the more I see armies and staffs generally unprepared to deal with the combination of radically more efficient weapons plus a static defense line and lacked the communication, organization, and mobile firepower to deal with it. While they should have been better prepared for the new weaponry, I don't think they could have anticipated an entire front going static; the Eastern Front was more to expectations. However, they could have adapted faster. | |
| Jun 10, 2018 at 17:45 | comment | added | jamesqf | I suggest changing "inadequacy of tactics" to "sheer stupidity of tactics". | |
| Jun 10, 2018 at 15:00 | comment | added | Angelo Fuchs | The Battle of Changping should be noted as having 700k in a small area (although unclear of how small that battlefield actually was.) as most of the casualties were captured soldiers that were buried together there. | |
| Jun 8, 2018 at 22:28 | comment | added | Schwern | @Mr.Mindor Just eyeballing a map of the First Battle of the Somme, it looks like the allies advanced in three phases over the 140 days of the battle. Each phase advanced about a mile or two. This represented an intense series of battles across a thin no-man's land (10 to hundreds of yards) leading to a German retreat to secondary trenches. A blow-by-blow examination of the battle would be necessary to determine how many died per each square mile. | |
| Jun 8, 2018 at 21:58 | comment | added | Mr.Mindor | Any reference by chance for how wide that 20 mile line is? | |
| Jun 8, 2018 at 17:51 | history | answered | Schwern | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
