Practice question · True or false
The technology of 1914 to 1918 favoured the defence, which is the main reason the western front settled into stalemate.
Hints
- Compare how fast a defender can bring fire onto a position with how fast an attacker can bring men to it.
- Machine guns, quick-firing artillery, wire and railways all help whoever is standing still.
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True
Why
True. Defenders had prepared positions, wire, interlocking machine-gun fire and rail supply to their rear; attackers had to cross open ground and then reinforce across a destroyed landscape faster than the defender could reinforce by train. Breaking that asymmetry took four years of tactical and technical work.
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