The Failure of the First World War

From 1914 to 1918, every year one side or the other in some years both would attempt to break the deadlock on what both sides saw as the primary theater. Verdun, the Somme, Iper, Pashondale, Operation Michael all failed. After the war these failures would be analyzed, again with the question of why. Nobody wanted to know why the war had turned into such a nightmarish trial of attrition,. where thousands were dying not for victory, but instead gains measured in square feet.