What tactics helped win battles in WW1?

Answer 1

Armies were finally able to bring new technologies to bear to make armies mobile again and overcome the trench warefare system

Tanks allowed men to leave their trenches with cover and rush other trenches.

Airplanes allowed better reconaissance and limited offensive capabilities.

Better artillery allowed more pinpoint barrages.

Better infantry tactics against entrenched emplacements. No more head long rushes into center of line.

Additionally, The Germans exhausted themselved with a final offensive. The final offensive was neceesitated by:

(1) American entry into war and desire to end war before these new soldiers could be trained
(2) political pressures in Germany (revolutionary threats)

The English and French were simply able to outlast the Germans , militarily and politically. Infusion of fresh troops only strenghened their hand.

Answer 2

The realization that trench warfare is not good Idea was the best thing that came out of WWI. as far as what won the war, there were many criteria which came together to acheive this outcome. The biggest factor I would cite would be numbers. Then ther was the introduction of much improved automatic weapons. The use of aircraft as a weapon was helpful during WWI and also the birth of the USAF and RAF. Reconicence also provided by aircraft also played a very crucial role in being victorious in WWI. Using this reconicence to deploy troops and provide an accuratley placed flank provided the allies with a stedfast advantage in ground battles. To put a finger on one thing that contributed to the allied victory I would have to pick the airplain used in a multitactical manner. Combined with the great resolve of the British Soliders and help from America.

Answer 3

There were no good tactics which is why the front line didn't move for 4 years and in every battle hundreds of thousands of men died in pointless bayonet charges against machine guns. Dum Guy - There were several huge battles in that war where the front line would advance a few miles but then eventually go back to where it started. This week is the 90th anniversery of the Battle of the Somme where A HALF A MILLION British Soldiers and a similar number of Germans died in one battle. There was also Verdun, Marne, Passchendale, Vimy Ridge, Arras, and Cambrai (the first use of tanks).

Answer 4

Very few battles actually ended in "victory" for either side - most were stalemates and bloody ones at that - as military tactics generally weren't in synch with the new technologies of war.

That said, if holding onto ground while under assault (by definition, perhaps, a "stalemate") then static defenses within trench lines was probably the most effective means to win a battle during that conflict.

Answer 5

There was no true victor in any battle. Both sides, regardless of who held the field at the end of a battle period were both so destroyed in regards to morale, materiel, and force concentration that it is impossible to discuss winning tactics.

If you had to name something, I would say defensive warfare. Gen. James Longstreet from the American Civil War adopted a traverse trench which prevented a trench system from being exposed to enfilade fire. After the first few battles in the early days of the war, a traverse trench was again adopted by all sides. The pictures of mile long trench systems with interconnection systems are classic examples of traverse systems. By holding a line and placing machine gun nests at ket points while firing artillery barrages at the opposing line allowed a defensive force to hold for extended amounts of time.

Answer 6

No 'mojo jojo' that was the second world war. In World war one tactics that were used included new technology (eg. tanks, machine guns), attrition, chemical weapons, shelling and snipers.

Answer 7

Sweendog correct me if I am wrong but the USAF was not started until after WWII. Maybe you were talking about the US Army - Air Core

Answer 8

Coding and code braking.