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Why was World War One the first and last major war to be characterised by trench warfare?
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Why was World War One the first and last major war to be characterised by trench warfare? One reason why trench warfare developed on the Western Front was the failure of the Schlieffen Plan. The Schlieffen Plan was Germany's idea of increasing their empire whilst preventing a war on two fronts between France and Russia. The plan was that the Germans would conquer France quickly in order to ready themselves against the immanent attack from Russia. They wanted to do this all in six weeks, and to do that they needed to go through Belgium and take Paris. The Germans gambled that the Russians would be slow to mobilise their forces in time to attack Germany on the Eastern Front; they also gambled that the advance through Belgium would be quick because their wouldn't be any resistance to their passing; and they also suspected that Britain wouldn't keep their promise to...
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