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- One of the best examples of a war of attrition is World War I on the Italian and the Western Fronts. [ 6] Both sides were drained until one side did not have enough men, horses, food and other military resources to continue. The term was often used to show a lack of imagination in simply throwing soldiers at their enemy. [ 6]
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The word attrition is synonymous with the First World War on the Western and Italian fronts, and the term is often used when accusing generals of lacking imagination and simply throwing soldiers at their opponents in the hope that greater numbers would provide victory.
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- Italian Neutrality
- The London Pact
- South Tyrol and The Battle of Caporetto
- The Battle of Verdun
- The Battle of The Somme
Prior to the summer of 1914, Italy hadbeen an ally of Germany and Austria-Hungary,as a member of the so-called Triple Alliance since 1882.When war broke out, however, Italy declared itself neutral and remainedstrictly so until the spring of 1915.All this time, Italy watched the war develop and calculated howto reap the greatest benefit from the sit...
In April 1915,Italy approached Austria-Hungary and offered its alliance to the CentralPowers in exchange for a list of a half-dozen territoriesunder Austrian control. When Austria refused a few days later, Italyturned to the Allied Powers with an even longer listof demands. Negotiations began immediately, and a few weeks later, onApril 26, a secret...
Italian forces promptly advanced into the mountainousborder regions of South Tyrol and to the IsonzoRiver. They made good progress at first, but within weeks,the front bogged down in the treacherous terrain, while the Austro-Hungarianforces pulled off a very effective defense. As a result, one moreentrenched front line was added to the war. The Ita...
During the stalemate between Italy and Austria-Hungary,one of the longest and most catastrophic battles of the war wasfought several hundred miles away, in France. On February 21, 1916,Germany launched an offensive against the fortified French townof Verdun, which guarded the approach to Paris. TheGermans intended to make a sustained attack that wo...
On July 1, 1916,even as the fight was still raging at Verdun, Allied Powers launchedan offensive of their own along a twenty-five-mile front that extendedacross both banks of the river Somme.The opening artillery barrage was so heavy that it could be heardin southern England. During the four-and-a-half-month Battleof the Somme, the Allies managed t...
Jan 13, 2016 · The word attrition is synonymous with the First World War on the Western and Italian fronts, and the term is often used when accusing generals of lacking imagination and simply throwing soldiers at their opponents in the hope that greater numbers would provide victory.
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Attrition warfare is a military strategy consisting of belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel, materiel and morale. [1]
- Planning for 1916. On December 5, 1915, representatives of the Allied powers gathered at the French headquarters in Chantilly to discuss plans for the coming year.
- German Plans for 1916. While Austrian Chief of Staff Count Conrad von Hötzendorf made plans for attacking Italy through the Trentino, his German counterpart, Erich von Falkenhayn, was looking to the Western Front.
- The Battle of Verdun. A fortress town on the Meuse River, Verdun protected the plains of Champagne and the approaches to Paris. Surrounded by rings of forts and batteries, Verdun's defenses had been weakened in 1915, as artillery was shifted to other sections of the line.
- The Battle of Jutland. As fighting raged at Verdun, the Kaiserliche Marine began planning efforts to break the British blockade of the North Sea. Outnumbered in battleships and battlecruisers, the commander of the High Seas Fleet, Vice Admiral Reinhard Scheer, hoped to lure part of the British fleet to its doom with the goal of evening the numbers for a larger engagement at a later date.
1916 witnessed two of the longest and most notorious battles of the First World War (1914-18). These two bloody struggles resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties for both the Allies and the Germans on the Western Front.
Abstract. By the end of 1915, the war that everyone had thought would be over within six months had lasted for nearly a year and a half, and no one any longer expected a rapid conclusion. This prolonged conflict was made possible only by the continued and unquestioning support of the belligerent peoples. ‘1916: The War of Attrition ...
