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Article: Polymer advances in the interwar period: the impact of science on World War II.
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- Army Logistician
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- March 1, 2007
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When I asked fellow staff members and students at the Army Command and General Staff College to tell me what came to mind when they heard the words "World War I" by far the two most common answers were "trench warfare" and "attrition." One statistic from that war is particularly sobering: Over the course of the war, both the Allied and Central Powers reconstituted their infantry ranks three times. No wonder people called it "the war to end all wars." Those who studied the lessons learned from that tragedy quickly realized that the trench warfare that characterized World War I had become an untenable military tactic. For nations to wage future wars successfully, they would ...
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