"The US Army Still Trains For Trench Warfare " Topic

"Even in an era of combat aircraft, tanks, and an endless array of technological advances, the US Army still trains troops in the tactics of trench warfare. And sometimes they go to Poland to do it.

It may sound archaic, but the truth is that while trench warfare – and the horrors that go along with it – are more closely identified with World War I, the practice has continued throughout the last century.

During WWII, Russia was well known for its use of trench warfare as a defensive measure. The outcome of the Battle Of Kursk, in particular, was partially a result of Russia's extremely elaborate maze of trenches and defensive fortifications. In the Pacific, the Japanese used a series of intricate entrenchments, tunnels, and underground bunkers in an attempt to fortify the many islands it held. When the invasion did come, the trench complexes were a bane to US forces, resulting in some of the most fierce close-quarters fighting of the entire war…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Lots of Dirt still stops bullets. No surprize

And therefore the US military still trains in ways to either use or defeat lots of dirt.

I thought the FAE/Thermobaric munitions had rendered trench lines extinct.