Trench warfare was created to protect the soldiers from the more advanced weaponry of the age, such as shells and machine guns, not to mention the trenches were used as a way of separating the armies to reduce casualties. They were deemed necessary; the old way of fighting was dead. Armies could not simply march in a straight line towards each other, as the British found out when the “People’s Army(?)” was destroyed by machine guns while marching toward them in a straight line.
The trenches, however, did not have their desired effect. They became breeding grounds for rats and disease. Soldiers starved, pinned down beneath unceasing enemy fire, unable to escape from their own defensive fortifications. Others wasted away, dying of diseases transmitted by the rats and their fellow soldiers alike. This, of course, had an enormous effect on the families of the soldiers, because the removal of the husband/father from the family took an enormous toll upon the family. The governments were affected mainly because the trenches slowed down the war to such an extreme that eventually, the casualties became enormous, from disease and enemy fire alike.
The trenches, however, did not have their desired effect. They became breeding grounds for rats and disease. Soldiers starved, pinned down beneath unceasing enemy fire, unable to escape from their own defensive fortifications. Others wasted away, dying of diseases transmitted by the rats and their fellow soldiers alike. This, of course, had an enormous effect on the families of the soldiers, because the removal of the husband/father from the family took an enormous toll upon the family. The governments were affected mainly because the trenches slowed down the war to such an extreme that eventually, the casualties became enormous, from disease and enemy fire alike.
Sorr, I had to use that emoticon..
