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A Defensive War

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British soldiers with machine gun & gas masks

The military commanders were unprepared for the first major war fought with the new mechanized weapons produced by an industrialized Europe. The machine gun was most responsible for turning the new war into a defensive stalemate.

 

Part of The Great War exhibit

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