World Wars Of The 20th Century
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The failure of the Europeans to learn from the American Civil War led them
to fight the same kind of war in World War I. The armies of Europe and the
United States fought for four years only to end in a stalemate. Nothing was
settled despite massive loss of life.
Some of the techniques used were ....
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.... had increased tenfold the French land forces had
been enlarged to 2,600,000 and in 1918 the American Army in France numbered
1,200,000. It was the addition of troops from the United States that made
it possible to defeat German forces numbering about 2.5 million.
Army organization for all the belligerents remained the same as it had been
throughout the 19th century. They all had similar infantry and cavalry
divisions, artillery brigades, engineering companies, supply units, and
medical units ....
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