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The 49 pages that link to Trench warfare, each with the reason it gives.

• Battle of the SommeRelated: Entrenched defenses shaped the assault’s tactics and made territorial advances costly.

• ArtilleryRelated: Artillery bombardment helped drive armies into trenches during the First World War.

• Russo-Ukrainian WarRelated: Entrenched fronts have made territorial advances costly and slow.

• InfantryRelated: Industrial firepower forced infantry in the First World War into entrenched combat.

• Field artilleryRelated: Industrial artillery helped drive armies into trenches and made exposed movement costly.

• Cavalry chargeRelated: Trenches, wire, and machine guns made traditional massed cavalry charges impractical.

• Italian Front (World War I)Related: Entrenched positions turned many Isonzo offensives into costly battles of attrition.

• First Battle of the MarneRelated: The failed pursuit after the Marne helped produce continuous trench lines.

• Douglas HaigRelated: It shaped the battlefield Haig repeatedly tried to break through.

• Maxim gunRelated: Machine guns helped make exposed advances across defended ground exceptionally dangerous.

• Siege of Port ArthurRelated: Russian and Japanese forces dug extensive trenches as attacks stalled around the fortress.

• Armoured warfareRelated: The deadlock of First World War trenches created pressure for protected vehicles able to cross obstacles and wire.

• Infantry tacticsRelated: Machine guns and artillery made exposed infantry advances exceptionally costly in the First World War.

• Siege of SevastopolRelated: Allied trenches advanced toward Russian defenses through repeated digging and assault.

• Siegfried SassoonRelated: Its conditions and routines recur in Sassoon’s depictions of soldiers’ lives.

• Automatic firearmRelated: Machine guns made exposed movement across defended ground exceptionally dangerous.

• Christmas truceRelated: The close, static front made face-to-face contact possible during the truce.

• Race to the SeaRelated: The closed flank made prolonged defensive positions central to fighting in the west.

• Battle of HilliRelated: Prepared defenses made frontal attacks costly and prolonged the fighting.

• Brusilov OffensiveRelated: Brusilov's forces sought to rupture the entrenched lines that had stalled earlier offensives.

• Hiram MaximRelated: Machine guns descended from Maxim’s design made exposed advances across open ground exceptionally dangerous.

• Infiltration tacticsRelated: Dense trench systems made frontal assaults costly and encouraged bypass methods.

• Svetozar BoroevićRelated: The terrain and artillery made entrenched defense central to Boroević’s campaigns.

• Battle of the WildernessRelated: After inconclusive attacks, both armies entrenched rather than ending the campaign.

• Hugo SchmeisserRelated: The close combat of the First World War created demand for the MP 18’s concentrated automatic fire.

• Barbed wireRelated: Barbed wire protected trench lines and slowed assaults across no man's land.

• Macedonian FrontRelated: Entrenched armies faced one another across a largely static front for years.

• Trench coatRelated: Wet, exposed conditions in trench warfare created demand for protective outerwear.

• Hugh LoftingRelated: Lofting's wartime letters used animal stories partly to spare his children graphic battlefield descriptions.

• Human wave attackRelated: Trenches and interlocking fields of fire often turned wave attacks into severe casualties.

• John T. ThompsonRelated: Thompson envisioned a compact automatic weapon for close-range fighting in trenches.

• R. C. SherriffRelated: Its confined, dangerous routines shape the soldiers’ daily world in Journey’s End.