Dang. I wish I lived closer but a plane ticket just wouldn't be rational.

Where is this.

100% and thanks for explaining this. I wish I had more time to explain with 3 kids but you exactly what I wanted to say as well

Yes! I always get it mixed up.

Totally agree to this and armchair historian

A war of attrition is what you call a meat grinder. You can't have an decisive victory and you your's loose a lot of resources and the other side does too. It really comes down to who can throw more bodies at something also known as a punic victory

There was no real use of air forces. The artillery was largely ineffectual against entrenched troops. Chemical was a VERY double edged sword.

So you were really only left with a creeping barrage or a mass formation running to the other line.

That was the biggest lesson learned in WW1 don't become entrenched because it becomes a war of attrition. Hence the German changes in WW2