Trench warfare


 

Trench warfare is a form of war in which both opposing armies have static lines of fortifications dug into the ground, facing each other. Trench warfare arose when there was a revolution in firepower without similar advances in mobility and communications. Periods of trench warfare occurred during the American Civil War (1860s) and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, and reached peak brutality and bloodshed on the Western Front in the First World War.

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War - Fortification - Trench - American Civil War - Russo-Japanese War - Western Front - First World War

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Trench warfare: Background ►

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►Introduction
►Background
►Development
►Implementation
►Life in the trenches
►Death in the trenches
►Weapons of trench warfare
►Mining
►Trench battles
►Obsolescence
►Recent trench warfare
►Resources
►See also
►External links

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