HTST 490 : In-class Lectures

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Hist 490 lecture 3, jan 13 th 2014. The role begins to mutate with landlines etc. Armies become reliant on telegraph and field telephones. What becomes clear is there is leakage on the front lines when using telegraph lines/field telephones. The germans and french stumble onto this knowledge quickly, becomes offensive and defensive issue. Germans easily pick up english plans using this discovery. Near the end of the war, more effective defense is implemented to stop this activity. Once people begin using radio in 1916/17 to direct artillery fire and communicate with gun-spotters in order to figure out what is happening, and then deliver warnings to your own troops. Popularity grows with use of radio, and everyone can know the location of everyone. On intelligence alone, one could know the entire plan of the enemy combatants. But this doesn"t mean that much actually, because it can"t actually help you fight the physical battle.

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