I think that technology influenced World War I warfare negatively, because of the horrible and unnecessary massive slaughter that it brought. New technological advances in metallurgy, chemistry and engineering among others, made by that time weapons extremely more deadly and powerful. This changed completely the way that wars were fought in the past, now causing devastating damage faster and easier. The leaders of such wars needed necessarily to change their strategies to adapt to this new technological advances and prevent people from being exterminated the way they did. Technical advances in war continue to be a negative fact nowadays, but previous war experiences have made countries realize how easy this planet can be totally destroyed and humanity erased from the face of the earth, making everybody more cautious.
During WWI, new technology artillery and machine guns made more difficult for the attacking infantry to get close to the enemy, so soldiers ended up living in nasty wet mud-covered cold trenches, with little or no food or water, and surrounded by dead corpses and scavenger animals. To gain terrain, infantry needed to advance crossing open fields and then cutting through barbed wire and obstacles before being able to get close …show more content…
Our textbook says that in the war against Germany “twenty-one thousand British soldiers were killed on the first day of the battle of the Somme. A further thirty thousand were wounded.” The British believed that their guns and explosives could destroy the barbed wire that separated them from being able to charge the Germans in their trenches. After firing 1.5 million rounds, the British soldiers charged finding to their surprise that the barbed wire was intact, exposing themselves to machine guns that run them over. Over one million soldiers died among both countries after five months of intense fights without either gaining
During WWI, new technology artillery and machine guns made more difficult for the attacking infantry to get close to the enemy, so soldiers ended up living in nasty wet mud-covered cold trenches, with little or no food or water, and surrounded by dead corpses and scavenger animals. To gain terrain, infantry needed to advance crossing open fields and then cutting through barbed wire and obstacles before being able to get close …show more content…
Our textbook says that in the war against Germany “twenty-one thousand British soldiers were killed on the first day of the battle of the Somme. A further thirty thousand were wounded.” The British believed that their guns and explosives could destroy the barbed wire that separated them from being able to charge the Germans in their trenches. After firing 1.5 million rounds, the British soldiers charged finding to their surprise that the barbed wire was intact, exposing themselves to machine guns that run them over. Over one million soldiers died among both countries after five months of intense fights without either gaining