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| Tango01 | 16 Feb 2024 5:13 p.m. PST |
"Wilhelm Balck said about tactics, "Bullets quickly write new tactics." He was a divisional commander in the First World War and had written many articles and manuals on tactics before the Great War.[1] After the Battle of the Marne in 1914 and the subsequent German retreat, the war on the western front became more of a positional war rather than a war of maneuver. The Allied and German nearly unattainable goal was to penetrate the enemy's main defense lines and exploit any breakthrough. New tactics would be developed after the bullets started flying. The German Army made some fundamental changes to both its offensive and defensive tactics during the winter of 1916/1917 and again in the winter of 1917/1918. In spite of all the adjustments, the spring offensive of 1918 failed. The Germans began questioning and studying why they failed in their last gamble to win the war. To answer the question of why the tactical changes made by the German Army did not bring them victory in the Spring Offensive, it is necessary look at the evolution of tactics that began in 1915. The slaughter at the First Battle of Ypres showed that continued adherence to the established tactics could only result in unsustainable casualties. New offensive and defensive tactics began to take shape…" Main page
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