The Human Wave: The Most Inhuman War Tactic

Winning at any cost

Mohammad Hossein Heydari فارسی: محمدحسین حیدری (GFDL <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html> or GFDL <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html>), via Wikimedia Commons

Let me paint a picture for you. You’re a soldier in a filthy trench, poorly armed and poorly equipped. It doesn’t matter what side you’re on, where or when you are — the outcome will be the same. You’ve been given orders to charge, so you and thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of other men and boys, race across no man’s land. Artillery has done little to…