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Warfare

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  • Armed military struggle between two massed armies, two nations or multiple nations.
  • Seen throughout history in multiple countries

Trench Warfare

  • a form of warfare using largely formed trenches to take cover from artillery and small arms fire
  • Started when the realization of innovations in firearms were advanced but not in mobility
  • Used In WWI and WWII
  • Caused large stalemates between enemy trenches
  • created what is known as "no man's land"
  • Became a fight of morality

How have any of these things evolved over time?

Why did it become ineffective?

  • The creation of new tactics and vehicles caused trench warfare to become less used and more likely to cause death
  • A new tactic was chemical warfare involving the use of toxic substances in battle against enemies
  • Soldiers would use this to weed out troops in enemy trenches and would result in either the enemy being killed by the gas or killed by the soldiers when enemies tried to escape (put into flashcard)
  • Later the gas mask was made to help soldiers from being affected by the gas though it still killed many soldiers
  • For tactics; things like strategies and new forms of combat appeared that lead to greater warfare
  • For Tanks: their firepower and mobility improved
  • For Rifles: more firepower, penetration power, less weight.

Guerrilla Warfare

Evolution of Warfare

  • a form of irregular warfare in which a small group of combatants use military tactics such as:
  • sabotages
  • raids
  • ambushes
  • element of surprise
  • This was used against larger groups of enemy troops that were less mobile, vulnerable targets, and soldiers would withdraw almost immediately unless unable to

M4 Carbine

What military tactics are used today?

  • Used 5.65x45mm cartridges
  • Weight: 6lbs
  • 700 rpm
  • 30 round box magazine

Tactics

Weapons: Rifles

Vehicles: Tanks

  • In Modern War, Guerrilla warfare is still highly used in most countries with both today's guerrilla warfare and the past's guerrilla warfare having very little changes
  • Past: Used by smaller armed forces against large military forces
  • Present: Used by any size military force against an equally sized force or a larger force

Standard rifle of modern military for US

Improvements: less jamming, more range, higher firepower

Creation and advancements in Tanks

  • Created in response to the creation of trench warfare
  • A way to attack soldiers in enemy trenches easier without the waste of soldiers
  • At first it wasn't as effective as nations wanted them to be due to:
  • lack of mobility
  • unable to move through certain terrain

Colt M16A2

  • This was improved upon later on the years
  • Used 5.65x45mm cartridges
  • Weight: 7.9lbs
  • 800 rpm
  • 30 round magazine

Negative:

M1 Abrams

  • Jammed often
  • One of 3 main battle tanks of the US
  • Highly mobile
  • designed for modern armored ground warfare
  • well armed and heavily armored
  • Speed: 45mph
  • Weapons:
  • 105mm M68A1 rifled cannon
  • .50 Cal M2 Machine gun
  • 7.62 M240 Machine gun
  • 7.62 M240 Machine gun

M4 Sherman Tank

Stingray Tank

Fire Arms: Rifles: Thompson

  • produced by the Textron Marine & Land Systems division
  • specifically designed to use as many existing components of other American armored fighting vehicles as possible to keep costs down.
  • Speed: 44mph
  • Uses a 105mm bore cannon with a .50 cal browning machine gun
  • the primary tank used in WWII by the United States also being distributed to Allies like Great Britain and the Soviet Union
  • the M4 was named after Union General William Sherman following the British's practice of naming American built tanks after American civil war generals
  • Speed: 24 mph
  • Armor: 19-91 mm
  • Main Gun: 75 mm (later 76 mm)
  • Secondary Armament: 1 x .50 cal. Browning M2HB machine gun, 2 x .30 Browning M1919A4 machine guns
  • nicknamed the "Tommy gun"
  • Used .45mm cartridges
  • weight: 10.5lbs
  • 700 rpm (rounds per minute)
  • Used either a 30 round box magazine or a 50-100 round drum magazine

Negatives:

  • low range until later variants were created
  • low penetration and damage capacity due to cartridge
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