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I believe that barbed wire was first utilized by the British, who in turn had adapted it from an American concept used to fence ranches in the American West.

Wire entanglements were not first used in WWI. Piano and telegraph wire had been used in the American Civil War as part of trench defenses roughly in the same role as barbed wire.

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