2. Introduction Trench warfare played a major role in the outcome of world war one (WW1). Millions of soldiers died due to this method of fighting and many more were wounded. Since then they have not been used in wars dues to their ineffectiveness against modern technology such as planes‚ helicopters and nuclear weapons. 3. The Trenches and why they were Employed Trenches are ditches in which soldiers can fight. The trenches in WW1 were built about two – three metres deep and measured two metres
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Warfare is one of the most dangerous‚ violent and most physically and mentally traumatic atrocities of our world‚ accounting for hundreds of thousands of deaths and costing nations billions of dollars in supplies‚ weapons development and other war-time needs every year. In the Twenty-First Century‚ one of the biggest “frontiers” in weapons development has been the idea of chemical weapons‚ especially those in the form of weaponized gasses. These weapons‚ which are defined as an “ammunition or device
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Juliana Amenta 2/18/13 Mr. Zastrow Chemical Warfare During World War 1 The first World War has been reported to be one of the most brutal wars in the history of time for many reasons. One of those reasons was strategic usage of chemical warfare. Chemical gas was used on both sides of the line‚ which turned out to be fatal for many. World War I was mostly fought in the trenches‚ where soldiers lived in deep‚ v-shaped holes or underground bunkers. Both sides would occupy these trenches in order
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World War One was a horrific event. The number of known dead has been placed at about 10‚000‚000 men. The main method of combat during the first world war a.k.a. the Great World War‚ was trench warfare. Trench warfare was one of the main reasons so many men died. It was a ruthless system of warfare‚ in which lines and lines of men were repeatedly mowed down‚ one after the other. Life in the trenches‚ on the daily‚ was filled with horror‚ and death. Death was a constant companion to those serving
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Bioterrorism (Biological Warfare) is defined as the usage of infectious agents in killing or causing injuries to human’s‚ plants‚ and animals. It has been used all over the world by many different countries. Along with nuclear and chemical weapons‚ biological weapons are classified as a Weapon of Mass Destruction (2). It’s a mass destruction weapon because of it being highly contagious and having the ability to spread‚ creating a “blast radius” that is virtually endless. The reason why the impact
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World War I Chemical Warfare On April the 22‚ 1915 at the start of the Second Battle of the Ypres‚ the first poison gas attack and the first use of chlorine gas in a battlefield started‚ even though the Hague declaration and Convention forbade the use of poison weapons in the warfare. The Germans attacked France with the chlorine gas‚ but the French were not prepared at all for this attack. The effects of the chlorine gas to the soldiers was very severe; within seconds it destroyed their respiratory
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The end of the cold war‚ and later the collapse of Soviet Union‚ triggered the new type of warfare‚ labeled as “hybrid war”. Conducted by the Russia‚ mostly in eastern European countries. For the Russia‚ as a main inheritor of the Soviet Union‚ hybrid warfare is a geopolitical approach. The objective is to have a high leverage on former Soviet nation’s political decisions. The hybrid warfare as a strategy‚ orchestrates the military and nonmilitary systems‚ seeks to operate in multiple domains‚ to
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During the interwar period the allies developed several lines of thinking as to how airpower would be used in future warfare. The military and political leaders of the day were looking for a way to avoid the horrors of trench warfare from World War I. This timeframe offers an interesting look at how technology‚ in the form of airpower‚ had a great potential to affect future wars‚ but a lack of understanding of its accuracy and how to implement the technology lead to false assumptions‚ which resulted
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Medieval European Warfare Weapons In early to mid Medieval Europe‚ the armies had nothing very complicated. The nobles had solid iron weapons‚ and the not as rich had brass coated in iron. There was the lance‚ the spear‚ the pike‚ throwing axe‚ battle axe‚ short sword‚ the horsebow‚ the longsword‚ broadsword‚ dagger‚ shortbow‚ longbow‚ crossbow‚ mallet‚ mace‚ greatsword‚ serrated sword‚ halberd‚ throwing knives‚ and the wrist knife. The lance‚ dagger‚ longsword‚ and horse bow were generally used
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In 1925 the Geneva Protocol was instituted. Signed by 38 states initially the Geneva protocol banned the use of chemical gases. The protocol called banned the use of chemical warfare do to the inhumane side effects of the gases used. Chemical gases would not only affect the soldiers fighting‚ they would also affect the civilians in surrounding areas of where the chemical’s were used. There was between “100‚000-260‚000 casualties
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