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Don’t even need to look back at history, Russia is using this strategy right now (2000 casualties a day).
Even compared to the russian losses in Ukraine, the numbers from WW1 were ridiculously high.
WW1 was trivial compared to the Battle of Leningrad. One MILLION Russians died in a single battle.
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I’ve always lliked Blackadder’s description of an advance as “another gargantuan effort to move [Haig’s] drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin.”
It’s a good plan except for the one small problem of everyone always getting slaughtered in the first ten seconds…
When the counterattack drives you back and you lose all that ground again: Suprised Pikachu
Man, I gotta get around to making some of these myself. I just never have the time, tools and ideas all at once.
If anyone is interested in a historically nuanced look at the topic, this blog series is enlightening.
(You knew this was coming, didn’t you?)
Here was an interesting video on how the various commanders would have been attempting to deal with the scale and the chaos of the situation.
