Re: Strategic Reserve.

["B.Rumary" <brian.rumary@virgin.net>]

> I suggest that the abilty of railways to deliver the munitions required
>  by industrial wars, by rail, right to the big gun line and lighter
> muntions
>  almost to the front line trenches may well have had something to do
> with it.
>
It was the machine guns and wire that created the unbreakable front line, 
not the heavy artillery. The artillery was used to try to smash a way 
through the wire and kill the enemy machine-gunners, so making a hole in 
the front line. It failed until the generals finally learnt better 
tactics and also used tanks. By the time of the cease fire the front had 
become mobile again, firstly with the big German break-through in early 
1918 and then the steady pushing back of the German front in the last few 
months of the war.

Brian Rumary, England

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