Jen B asked:
I need to create a table for my GCSE CW about the comparrisons between WW1 and mordern day warfare but i’m having trouble coleting this information. so could anyone help me or tell me a good website i could use? thanks.
I need to create a table for my GCSE CW about the comparrisons between WW1 and mordern day warfare but i’m having trouble coleting this information. so could anyone help me or tell me a good website i could use? thanks.
Try seeing if there is a Jane’s Book on line. Jane’s covers all sorts of weaponry.
Consider that in WW I, field artillery was pretty much a hit or miss situation and the explosives used were not very efficient/effective. Today’s arty is computerized and can drop a round within less than a meter of the intended target. The computers can even triangulate from where enemy fire is coming and then allows for pin point accuracy.
Aircraft of WW I were generally of spruce wood and Irish linen with all sorts of drag wires that slowed the ship down even further. Most engines were piston type and the cylinders spun around the crankshaft. With no valve covers, they flung oil everywhere. Most did not have adjustable throttle controls and instead used a “blip switch” which cut the power to the spark plugs but did not shut off fuel flow to the cylinders. With that set up, the unburnt fuel was splashed against the fuselage making the aircraft a potential bomb.
Modern aircraft can fly three times the speed of sound and use laser guidance to place the ordinance within a couple of inches of the intended target.
Americans think they are awesome but get bogged down, while British troops quietly go about their jobs and defeat their enemy
You need to remember differences AND similarities. The main reason for war is often the same – terrorism or fear of military progress i.e. Naval competition contributed to WW1 and the USA intervened in Iraq as they believed they had weapons of mass destruction. Theres alwasy a short-term ‘spark’ to set war off too, which is often on a similar basis. In WW1 it was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, in WW2 it was Nazis marching into Poland, and with Afghanistan recently it was 9/11. Theres often a dictator involved too – in WW1 it was Tsar Nicholas II and the Kaiser, in WW2 there was Mussolini and Hitler, and recently wve had Saddam Hussein.
Hope this helps.