Not sure if this is what you are asking for or not, but Verdun.How effective were 'bite and hold' tactics during WWI and could someone point me to some examples?
There a very good wiki article about the battle of messines which is a good example of bite and hold tactics.How effective were 'bite and hold' tactics during WWI and could someone point me to some examples?
Which one? I found 4;There a very good wiki article about the battle of messines which is a good example of bight and hold tactics.
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Bite and hold was a very tactical form of battle would wouldn't put the Allies into German until the 1920s due to the very nature of its slow grind through the enemy defenses with heavy firepower and a lot of time consuming preparationsOk, how plausible would it be for the allies using 'bite and hold' to push into Germany?
Late 1918 after the morale of the German armies were destroyed. The allies used sophisticated combined arms tactics and no German line could hold against them but open warfare as opposed to trench warfare did not break out till October.Ok, how plausible would it be for the allies using 'bite and hold' to push into Germany?
Bite and hold was a very tactical form of battle would wouldn't put the Allies into German until the 1920s due to the very nature of its slow grind through the enemy defenses with heavy firepower and a lot of time consuming preparations
Only after the German offensives basically broke the German army. So it wasn't bite and hold that broke through the German defenses, it was attrition and the collapse of morale from the Germans attacking themselves to death and then trying to defend unfortified bulges they punched into Allied lines. Without that bite and hold alone will not achieve victory quickly, it will just be a long, hard, costly slog.a series of " bite and hold" offensives breaking through German defensive lines forced first withdrawal then open warfare by October
1918
allied offensives in 1918 used material superiority and tactical sophistication to achieve results
Bite And Hold was precisely designed to deal with that problem.Generally ineffective - because of artillery. Holding a small position against a massed counter-attack while your own troops are deprived from reinforcements and supply by artillery barrage over former no-men-land - was a generally losing proposition, at least on Western front.