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| Jan 4, 2021 at 15:49 | comment | added | Italian Philosopher | @GorttheRobot re. the meatgrinder aspect of WW1, not sure it was avoidable. People pay much tribute to innovations like accurate artillery ranging or infiltration tactics. Yes, they improved local tactical penetration, but trains meant the defender could reinforce easily while the attacker would be cut off from theirs as soon as they went past the front lines and could only move at walking speed, so no breakthrough exploitation would happen. The defender would then just adopt whatever tactics worked. Trenches + Machine gun + Trains - Tanks may naturally gravitate to Stalemate. | |
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| Jan 4, 2021 at 13:24 | comment | added | J... |
discounting the massive incompetence of Russia in 1905. One might say, however, that Japan was somewhat emboldened by their success in this campaign. It was a fresh taste of victory that left them wanting more.
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| Jan 3, 2021 at 6:00 | history | edited | Italian Philosopher | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 3, 2021 at 2:18 | comment | added | user15620 | In the end, it was won because the Germans realized that "bleed them white" was going to fail with fresh American troops arriving in large numbers. In any case, had the Japanese looked closely at that conflict, they should have seen that a western democracy was fully capable at absorbing immense causalties without giving up. | |
| Jan 3, 2021 at 1:05 | comment | added | C Monsour | @GorttheRobot The Western front in WWI was in fact won by body count, meaning count 9f warm bodies, not cold ones | |
| Jan 2, 2021 at 23:04 | comment | added | user15620 | Note that the "win-by-bodycount" thinking was endemic on the western front in WWI. But yes, I think that this is exactly right in that the Japanese fatally misunderstood the American psyche. | |
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| Jan 2, 2021 at 20:32 | history | answered | Italian Philosopher | CC BY-SA 4.0 |