Posted on May 22, 2016
If we were to take today's warriors, with all the training and knowledge, and put them into WW1, with WW1 equipment. How would they fair?
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They'd most likely be court martialed. They would know too much to follow orders like climb out of that trench in human wave attack in broad daylight
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SSgt Robert Marx
Trench warfare really did feed the butcher without a commensurate attainment of the high ground. The exhaustion of Germany along with the input of around two million Americans in the AEF turned the tide. Germany lost its war winning chance after the first winter with its troops along the Marne rather than in Paris.
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MSgt James Mullis
SSgt Robert Marx - FYI: Germany was exhausted by the severe loss of lives (both military and civilian) to what was to become known in America as the "1918 Spanish Flu". Over 1/3 of all German casualties during WW1 were caused by the Spanish Flu which would eventually cause over 50 million deaths (1 person out of every 18) worldwide.
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SSgt Robert Marx
MSgt James Mullis - The naval blockade by Britain that kept imports out of Germany along with the grain failures of 1916 meant a beat diet for many Germans. Those people were denied a nutritious diet due to the war and so their collective immunity went down. The impressive germ factories from all of the filth & muck of trench warfare meant influenza world wide.
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The service have never faltered in the face of combat, where one persons falls short another backs them up, Team This has stood true since the Revolutionary war. They would do the same as our fore fathers!
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I think the organizational piece would be better.... Soldiers would be better trained and better equipped but at the end of the day I think the mentality of today's soldier would be the downfall... I don't think today's soldier has the mental toughness like the soldiers did back in WW1 or WW2....... We rely more on tech to do our job in today's military then anything else and forgot how to do things without it...
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