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Sure all battlefields and war zones are awful, but it seems to me having to fight in as they did in WWI - I can't imagine anything worse. You're stuck in a trench where you can barely move while showered by artillery and mustard gas, eek. At least in other wars you have more maneuverability and had reliable tanks to hide behind.
I'd say anticipating modern accuracy in precision bombing would be worse. Even in WWII it eluded air forces. Its like instant death from the skies. You can't even hide behind a tank with the new air wepons that expode overhead and send multiple of charges downward. I'd say troops much preferred the trenches to going over the top and machine fire in WWI.
Take a look at the Iranian-Iraqi War. That has been described as a WWI tactics war with modern weapons. As a WWI type war, was that battlefield worse than the actual WWI?
I'd say anticipating modern accuracy in precision bombing would be worse. Even in WWII it eluded air forces. Its like instant death from the skies. You can't even hide behind a tank with the new air wepons that expode overhead and send multiple of charges downward. I'd say troops much preferred the trenches to going over the top and machine fire in WWI.
So tell me again about the smart bombs.
8 to 10 million military plus 4 million civilians dead in WWI
21 million military plus 27 million civilians dead WW2
I can only imagine what the WWI battlefield was like because my grandfather, who was a WWI combat infantry veteran, absolutely refused to talk about it.
8 to 10 million military plus 4 million civilians dead in WWI
21 million military plus 27 million civilians dead WW2
In WWII civilians were actively targeted, merchant ships at the very start and then cities a year into the war. We just told ourselves that is the munitions industries. Burning the the entire city to get at them was seen as collateral damage.The transportation technology was not evolved to the point in WWI were armies and navies could evade the front line shield to get at the civilians in mass attacks.
Siege at Stalingrad? Pretty much all the drawbacks of trench warfare but with freezing temperatures, nowhere to evacuate to and no supplies (food, fuel or ammo). O, and an enemy that was highly unlikely to let you live if you surrendered.
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Gettysburg. Not even a trench to hide in, march within 50 yards, lower your gun and fire..
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