blackhawksfan wrote:
I finally saw it last night and liked it. Why did they use trench warfare in WW1? What was the reasoning behind it?
WW1 was largely driven by the Shovel Industry.
Up until the late 19th century, people mostly dug holes with their hands and teeth. Rich people could afford renting packs of voles to help expedite the process, but even then it was tedious.
The shovel was invented in 1902 to more efficiently relocate dirt from one spot to another, but people were slow to adapt. Change can be scary after all. So Thaddeus Shovel came up with a ruse using his friend Frank Fernando’s apparent death to instigate a conflict in the Balkans. He rebranded the Shovel as a military tool and boom - trench warfare.
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The Doctor Of Style wrote:
This Ends in Antioch wrote:
“We’ll just wait until a bad thing happens to worry about something.”
Hate to tell ya this "Amigo", but that is sort of the essence of how life works.
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