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The most common type of warfare is “Attrition Warfare”. Force on force is the concept of this form of warfare. According to William S. Frisbee Jr. (n. d.), “Attrition warfare is often bloody and can be decisive.” The idea for battle is being [Doctoral rule (but good advice for any academic writer)--If not a noun (as in "human being"), the word "Being" is hard to imagine; it means "existing." Try to rewrite this without using "being"--with action words like "attending," "working," "living," "experiencing," simply "as"--or even removing "being" completely] the force that overwhelms the other whether it is through technology like tanks, planes, or battleships. In World War I during the “Battle of Verdun” a German Army of one million men attacked the French strong hold of Verdun of only 200,000 men. This battle lasted from February 21 through December 18, 1916. Waves and waves of men fought to take and defend the city of Verdun. The French military fought off the Germans because of their ability to replace the wounded and dead. The total death toll from this one battle was 400,000 German and 540,000 French (Rembrella, 2009). Attrition warfare has been used since the beginning of time and as long as technology and the human race develop so will warfare making attrition more powerful than ever.

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