Why do people think entrenchment fortifications could be easily destroyed by artillery with one blast?
Almost every people seem to think that trenches and entrenchment fortifications are easy to destroy using artillery.They think you just hit the trenches with one shot and people in it will easily be slaughtered.
But trenches and entrenchment fortifications are designed to protect and if possible immune soldiers from artillery fire!Although soldiers could still get hit by artillery fire and killed or wounded trenches and entrenchment fortification really minimized casualties and prevented all the soldiers in the same spot from getting killed!
Besides in order for artillery to effectively destroy entrenchment fortifications they have submit continious fire that were known to take hours or even days to actually begin making damages to the trenches!And not to mention soldiers could always attempt to repair the entrenchment fortifications to its original state.
And there is still the big problem of having to watch out for enemy artillery or trying to get the artillery in firing range.
So why do people think entrenchment fortifications could be easily destroyed by artillery?Why do they picture trenches as defenses that could be blasted apart by one shot?
do people think this? No way!
No matter how many bombs you drop on a position, it still isn’t yours until you send in men with bayonets.
Because…..Trenches are basically earth works, nothing really more than wood, and hard back dirt with rock, now it depends what time in history were talking about. Modern day trenches and bunkers and stone and cement but the missiles binging fired are stronger (the bunker buster missile) WW2 trenches were hard dirt, as they mostly were in ww1, but the germans has very complex systems of tunnles and trenches to protect them from missiles. But in my honest opinion trenches are out-dated. Modern warfare is urban battles…no time for trenches…
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Cluster bombs could rake the area easily.
Biological weapons would render trenches unusable, including gases.
My thought is that the physical value of the trench loses virtually all value if it fails to provide reasonable environmental controls for users, even if for short term usage. Trenches possess something many other installations don’t: Portability. Additionally, their design traps contaminants introduced to destroy inhabitants. Another interesting point one could make has to do with the enemy’s presumed concentration of defenders located in their trenches. Knowing as much makes them sitting ducks.
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do people think this? No way!
No matter how many bombs you drop on a position, it still isn’t yours until you send in men with bayonets.
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