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Since it doesn't seem to have been brought up yet... Lets look at WW1.
In WW1, there were essentially two sides locked in a perpetual mutual siege, there were ramparts, and fortifications, and all they did was sit there and trade artillery and make each other miserable and then dead for a number of years.
From what I can tell, WW1 is the worst thing humanity has ever done to itself, from wounds inflicted by shells, shell shock, poison gas, etc. While some survivors of the holocaust may disagree, I have talked to people who served in WW1 and holocaust survivors, it sounds like WW1 veterans had it worse. The guy I met had suffered a lifetime from wounds inflicted inside and out from mustard gas.
After that war, a conscious decision was made to never again engage in trench warfare, blitzkrieg was the result. This doctrine promoted mobility over fixed defenses, and when SHTF this is the preferable mode to setting up a fixed defense bullwork where a determined adversary will do anything in their power to remove you. Even in the mining industry, they can turn a whole mountain into powder mainly because the mountain can't get away.
In WW1, there were essentially two sides locked in a perpetual mutual siege, there were ramparts, and fortifications, and all they did was sit there and trade artillery and make each other miserable and then dead for a number of years.
From what I can tell, WW1 is the worst thing humanity has ever done to itself, from wounds inflicted by shells, shell shock, poison gas, etc. While some survivors of the holocaust may disagree, I have talked to people who served in WW1 and holocaust survivors, it sounds like WW1 veterans had it worse. The guy I met had suffered a lifetime from wounds inflicted inside and out from mustard gas.
After that war, a conscious decision was made to never again engage in trench warfare, blitzkrieg was the result. This doctrine promoted mobility over fixed defenses, and when SHTF this is the preferable mode to setting up a fixed defense bullwork where a determined adversary will do anything in their power to remove you. Even in the mining industry, they can turn a whole mountain into powder mainly because the mountain can't get away.