tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post6486383857093612..comments2024-03-27T20:37:08.065+01:00Comments on Defence and Freedom: Another view on the source for the debacles of late 1914Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-59959198474501643692011-08-20T12:28:31.376+02:002011-08-20T12:28:31.376+02:00Actually only a stagnation in infantry tactics cou...Actually only a stagnation in infantry tactics could have shortened the war by bleeding the axis powers white faster. WW I was a war of attrition not because of erroneous doctrine but by the simple fact, that the defender always outrun the attacker in committing his reserves.<br /><br /><br />"Some sought a solution fro the problem in more and better weapons of war (poison gas, tanks, mortars, submarines, aircraft, airships, flamethrowers), others sought them in proper infantry training (Germany, Italy and belatedly Austria-Hungary)."<br /><br />Ste... ste... stereotype!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-30546805799219394522011-08-20T08:49:51.717+02:002011-08-20T08:49:51.717+02:00I have to concur - the unwillingness of all sides ...I have to concur - the unwillingness of all sides to even manage to learn from the last few wars is still fairly amazing (lessons from the ACW & 1864/65 might have been extremely apposite, really). Does make me reflect on what the current systems are missing, and what lessons are going to have to be relearnt, bloodily (and quickly given the tempo of modern war).Die alte Aechzenerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18294141940637952687noreply@blogger.com