Fair question, to touch on another yet to be mentioned issue landmines can be cheaply made thus used in massive numbers. If there’s a field with 5 land mines every sq meter and you remove 80% of the mines you’ve spent hundreds of collective man hours to create a field you can’t move an army through.
Also if you did clear a narrow pathway across it you expose your troops to risk crossing if they exit the cleared path and also you leave behind an entire field of landmines, in your home country that will remain lethal for decades to anyone who wandered in it.
Fair question, to touch on another yet to be mentioned issue landmines can be cheaply made thus used in massive numbers. If there’s a field with 5 land mines every sq meter and you remove 80% of the mines you’ve spent hundreds of collective man hours to create a field you can’t move an army through.
Also if you did clear a narrow pathway across it you expose your troops to risk crossing if they exit the cleared path and also you leave behind an entire field of landmines, in your home country that will remain lethal for decades to anyone who wandered in it.