Raiding on the Western Front Saunders Anthony
Raiding on the Western Front Saunders Anthony The trench raid came to typify the aggression and close-combat of trench warfare on the Western Front. Dominance over the enemy could be established by…
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Raiding on the Western Front Saunders Anthony
The trench raid came to typify the aggression and close-combat of trench warfare on the Western Front. Dominance over the enemy could be established by aggressive raiding. Inevitably, raiding by aggressively minded units had a psychological effect on the enemy.
Successful raids buoyed spirits but unsuccessful raids could be detrimental because of the casualties sustained for no gain and raiding provoked retaliation from enemy artillery or mortars or a tit-for-tat return raid.Raids came to be the epitome of all-arms operations, combining individual weapons skills with tactical sense and requiring cooperation with artillery and mortar batteries for success. Equally, raiding had an effect on the morale of friendly troops but not always a positive one. Yet, a raiding party was an ad hoc all-arms combat team put together and trained for a specific operation.
In the early days of
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