The Nature of the Trenches and Their Effectiveness as a Method of Defence

The nature of the trench and its effectiveness as a defensive method were first introduced into the trench during the First World War, and the sole purpose of the trench was a strong defense. When two equal strengths of the military met, a stalemate / deadlock was entrusted (the end of 1914). The war of exercise has ended, and it led soldiers to dig a hole of about 3 meters high and 5 meters wide, known as a trench, along the front line. Because the basement is the greatest hope of survival, soldiers built trenches as people wanted to avoid the weight and fire power of modern weapons and artillery.

A typical groove system consists of three main fires or support channels that are ultimately connected to the trunk by communication grooves and various columns. By 1916, the German defense system had three to four such grooves stratified within a few miles. By 1917 the system further deepened and the Allied attack of 1918 faced a complex defense system of several miles deep. Throughout the year, the war zones, the sectors in the theaters, and the time and weather differ greatly. However, many men live in very small places because the life of the trench is always pretty dirty. Waste, empty cans, other garbage, nearby toilets, half of the general contamination on the ground, conditions that can not be washed or replaced in a few days or weeks that can lead to serious health risks

Enter infinitely. Different departments, different trench names, different trenches, but always the same trench, the same yellow, the same shout shell, the same comet's tail, their split roar. The same mouse, obesity, smooth, stomach full of corpse, eye of the same shining bracelet. Wherever we go, we will bring scorpions. The tree here is a cockroach, they embrace the rest, the cut arm in the sky. No flowers grow in this wasteland

Trench foot is another disease state specific to groove life. This is a foot fungal infection caused by the condition of a cold, damp unsanitary groove. It turns into gangrene and may cause cutting. At the beginning of the war, the trench foot was a problem; as the situation improved in 1915, as a series of incidents lasted during the war it quickly subsided. As an example - numbers are very different - people may expect to spend 30 days in nearby support trenches within a year, about 70 days at the forefront. An additional 120 people may spend on the reserve team. The break time is only 70 days. The amount of vacation varies and may take two weeks a year.