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ww1 infantry on the move
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I can't say I'm a fan of this. It was millions of men sent into mg nests, an offensive most often resulted in hundred of thousands attackers killed, while the defenders often lost less then a thousand. In WWI there was no glory, no respect of human life. Infantry was used as nothing else but pawns.
If those soldiers really are attacking, propably everyone of them got killed, together with half a million young men in that charge, that mostly moved the front six miles. Then this picture is nothing else but sad.
yeah, but its kinda better than napoleonic era wars. they just standed in lines hoping that the enemy will target the guy next to him instead of him or that their artillery will destroy the cavalry squad swarming to them before they could come in contact. the only difference than that and execution from a firing squad is that they had weapons
actually at that time the infantry quite packed a punch, but sure, when they started with grape shots, the line infantry got slaughtered, but nothing compared to the death in no mans land. The reason they started with trench warfare was just because the new weapons just slaughtered line infantry. Sure, they still used the old tactic at assaults but like I said, they was good for nothing.
anyway, since the dawn of war, infantry has always been the weakest and most expendable unit on the battlefield, there was always a cavalryman, a cannon, a tank or an aircraft waiting them to come in for the kill. the only thing we can say is good with infantry is special operations, as its the only situation when infantry has the upper hand to the other units of the field (artillery, aircraft, navy) the war in the picture and the war in napoleonic era was nothing more than a huge human slaughter nevertheless...
Well, unlike others kinds of units, infantry is able to do almost any combat discipline, they can reach almost every kind of terrain, unlike tanks or most vehicles, they are by far the stealthiest units, they completely dominate urban, jungle warfare, and some others, they are also the smallest units in the battle field. They are also the cheapest, in money, not in human resources, of course.