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a stalemate with a body count, dug six feet down and a hundred miles long.
means a style of combat where opposing armies dig fortified ditches facing each other, trading artillery and small gains for years instead of yards.
from perfected in WWI after 1914, when machine guns and artillery made open-field charges suicidal, so both sides simply dug in and stayed there.
western front lengthroughly 475 miles of continuous trenches
no mans landoften just 50 to 300 yards wide
casualties per yardsome battles cost lives per inch gained
disease tolltrench foot disabled more men than bullets some months