It has been mentioned that in Trench I there is evidence of three successive stages of these defences.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.
After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a nimble fighting force.
I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.
There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.
Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.
All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.