The creation of the Soviet regime was but one evil consequence of the First World War. A consequence of the Second World War was the drawing of the Soviet empire into the middle of Europe. It was worse because it was fought for no purpose as defensible as cleansing Europe of fascism greater, in that the war's resonances were - still are - louder. However, First World War anniversaries also should be noted because that war was worse and greater. Wars are fought by young men, many of whom, 40 years on, linger and remember.
In 19, we had many observances of 40th anniversaries associated with the winning of the Second World War. Twenty-four years later, a German regime made possible by the immobile slaughter of the First World War would send tanks racing across France to Paris. 15, 1916, a new weapon, born in the fertile brain of Britain's first lord of the admiralty, Winston Churchill, clanked into action: the tank. The old tactic of offense - slow advances by massed formations - amounted to trying to wear out machine guns with young men's chests. The machine gun suddenly gave decisive advantage to the defense.
The war was a calamitous case of new technology overwhelming old tactics. fatality toll in Vietnam.) By mid-November, when the battle oozed away into the churned mud, the British had suffered 420,000 casualties, the French 200,000 and the Germans about 450,000. (Twenty thousand is 40 percent of the eight-year U.S. Sixty-thousand British soldiers were casualties 20,000 were killed that day. Taylor writes that no man in the prime of life in 1914 knew what war between the great powers - there had not been such a war since 1871 - would be like. In a sense, we are still waist-deep in debris from (the 20th century is largely debris from) the battle that began at the Somme, July 1, 1916.Ī.
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