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Date Posted: 18:36:19 01/28/03 Tue
Author: Beth-Ann-Zellner
Subject: Ch 23 the New Technology of Warfare

The New Technology of Warfare
A. Proving ground for range of military and other technologies
1. Enormous destructive power
a. Improved machine guns
b. Higher-powered artillery
2. Trenches sheltered troops
a. Limited, usually inconclusive, fighting
3. New technology
a. Mobile weapons tanks and flamethrower
b. Chemical weapons poisonous mustard gas
i. Make it possible to attack entrenched soldiers without direct combat
4. New forms of technological warfare required elaborate maintenance
a. Troops had to stop for days at a time to wait for equipment to catch up to them
5. Airplane played a significant role
a. Would begin to take their role as bombers and fighters
6. The navy was still strong
a. The submarines became significant weapons
B. High Casualty Rates
1. Stunned and horrible characteristic of World War I
a. In Britain 1/3 of men born between 1892 and 1892 died
b. Enormous number of deaths

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