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This is something that has bothered me for years.

In 1864-1865 the ACW combatants went into trenches in Virginia. A guy called Emory Upton (widely considered one of the best military minds of his age) invented the Schwerpunkt/Stoßtruppen concept and put it successfully into operation and ideas and deeds were widely publicised.

Move to 1915, western front. The war has degenerated into trench warfare. How it is possible that nobody, absolutely nobody in german/austrian/french/british general staff didn't say "Wait a moment, I remember reading something about a technique they used in american civil war to deal with trenches... let me check the library..."?
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