Because if you went to go get a fallen soldier, the enemy didn't really care and they still fired at you, so you had to risk your life in order to bury a dead soldier.
lack of food ,standing water and rats
Trench warfare, mustard gas
the characteristics of the trench warfare were that each so called "team" had faught the war from a trench that they had dug at the battle field. this had made it harder to kill people on the opposing side.
they had deadly weapons.
Trench warfare was when soldiers dug holes in the ground so they could hide and be protected from the enemy but also be able to attack. Trench warfare was so destructive because it dragged on for long periods of time, trenches took up a lot of land, a lot of corpses were left in the middle of no mans land, anything between the trenches was pretty much destroyed.
The purpose of the trench warfare was so that defending units could be protected by small fire and sheltered against artillery
Trench warfare, mustard gas
the characteristics of the trench warfare were that each so called "team" had faught the war from a trench that they had dug at the battle field. this had made it harder to kill people on the opposing side.
they had deadly weapons.
Soldiers used them to look out of the trench's so they wouldn't have to waste a man who would probably get shot.
Trench warfare was when soldiers dug holes in the ground so they could hide and be protected from the enemy but also be able to attack. Trench warfare was so destructive because it dragged on for long periods of time, trenches took up a lot of land, a lot of corpses were left in the middle of no mans land, anything between the trenches was pretty much destroyed.
The purpose of the trench warfare was so that defending units could be protected by small fire and sheltered against artillery
At one point gas warfare was used, in the trench warfare So, yes it was uses
One of the major disadvantages of trench warfare was diseases. Many soldiers contracted diseases from being in the trenches for so long. Another disadvantage was that since the passage ways were so narrow, moving bodies was very difficult.
It must have been wonderful why else would so many people have wanted to go there.
World War I was dominated by trench warfare for one reason: it was effective in stopping the enemy's attacks. That is to say, defensive technology and tactics were, during this conflict, far more effective than offensive technology and tactics. It would not be until World War II that offensive developments broke through the trench-warfare deadlock.
Trenches are a kind of cheap fortification that vast numbers of soldiers can use during the kinds of battles that took place during WW I. So if you are in a trench, it is harder for the enemy to shoot you. Then you try to wait for the right moment to come out of your trench and advance upon the enemy and kill him. It was a very messy and difficult form of warfare, and nobody does it anymore because air power renders it obsolete.
Powerful weaponry such as machine guns, and poison gas inflicted casulties on a massive scale, as did the costly frontal assaults trench warfare so often entailed