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Originally Posted by Mr Pheer
I look at it from a soldier's point of view.
WW1 had trench warfare, poison gas, massive artillery barrages, the first use of tanks, first use of airplanes, first widespread use of submarines, machineguns were becoming more mainstream. Aside from the artillery, most of the fighting was done face to face with rifles, bayonets, pistols, grenades, swords, and shovels. Yes, shovels.
That's what I mean by raw and brutal.
Warfare that came afterward was more mechanized and used more efficient methods of killing. It took all the romance out of it.
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Of course, it was more raw and brutal than ww2, incredible that someone is still out there not understanding this. Then I've figured out that you are responding to Klint
Anyway, during ww1, it was a "normal" thing for dozens of thousands of soldiers to die without gaining a few meters of the land. There was a huge % of hand to hand combat, compared to ww2 and modern warfare. L