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War Trenches (1915-1916) Proceedings of the war

The balance of forces and weapons greatly facilitated formidable defense against attack and imposed to stabilize the front. The soldiers placed dozens of miles of barbed wire and mines between the North Sea and Switzerland. An assault had such a disadvantage against an opponent that none of the two sides decided to launch a major offensive, at least until late 1915. And human health conditions for the soldiers were very crude.

In late 1915, Archduke Falkenhayn, Chief of Staff, proposed the project to the Kaiser: attack Verdun, impenetrable fortress according to French propaganda, but was in difficult position by not having a road or rail for reavituallamiento. He hoped that his downfall would weaken the morale of French soldiers. The idea was to liquidate a large number of enemy troops at a cost of "reasonable" in Germanic lives.

On 21 February 1916, the attack began with artillery positions wildly allied bombing. The Germans made little progress, but the French losses were enormous. On 25 February General Langle of Cary decided to leave, the most reasonable from a strategic standpoint. But the French command thought they could not afford to lose Verdun and appointed in place of Philippe Pétain, who organized a series of violent counterattacks. The Germans turned the battle in front of a vast slaughter reduced.

On 1 July, the British unleashed a massive parallel struggle in the Battle of the Somme, in order to divide the German troops and reduce the pressure on France. The Germans fell by 15 December. In the end, the front almost unchanged, despite the hundreds of thousands of casualties. The war was total and the calculations did not stop bleeding compared to that implied.