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Explain how the experience of soldiers fighting on the frontline varied and changed throughout the war.
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10/30/02 Explain how the experience of soldiers fighting on the frontline varied and changed throughout the war. The First World War was one of constant changes as new concepts, strategies and issues were developed to achieve the ideal outcome: victory. However, it was also a war that was at a standstill where variations to a number of factors were unlikely to occur in the short term. Thus, soldiers experienced a war of changing strategies yet one of discomforting routine. While changes did occur, routine was still implemented with the monotony of these repetitions accentuated by the ongoing stalemate on the Western Front. Changes involved attitudes, weapons, tactics and commanders, while constants included routine, food, casualties and the concept of failure. The relationship between attitudes and all other factors mentioned above is that of cause and effect, for the effect of these various elements contributed to the negative attitude that most, if all, soldiers...
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