Introduction The Western Front of the First World War occupies a uniquely grim position in the popular imagination. It is a landscape defined by static lines of trenches, the nihilistic slaughter of the Somme and Passchendaele, and the apparent futility of a generation sacrificed by an incompetent and callous high command. This pervasive narrative, often … Continue reading The Logic of the Deadlock: Grand Strategy and the Nature of Attrition, 1914-1918