positional warfare

The chief thing, he said, was to avoid the positional warfare of 1914-18.

After the line stabilized, the division was in positional warfare until September 1916.

It remained in positional warfare in this general region until the end of the war.

It then settled into positional warfare in the trenches along the Somme.

The offensive was over by December 23, and operations degenerated into positional warfare.

Positional warfare ensued for the next six weeks.

It spent the war in positional warfare in the Alsace-Lorraine region.

It then remained in positional warfare along the Yser until June 1915.

The division was then primarily employed in positional warfare until the armistice on the Eastern Front.

Such a defense-in-depth would require more positional warfare, much closer to the border, in the initial stages of a conflict.

It saw several weeks' action in the Battle of the Somme, and then returned to positional warfare in the line.

From November 1915 to September 1916, the division remained in positional warfare by Riga.

There he experienced positional warfare and served as a munitions soldier and then as company writer.

The advance halted 64 kilometres short of the Kirov railway, and three years of positional warfare set in.

The division remained in positional warfare along the Somme and in Flanders in early 1917.

From October 1915 to August 1916, the division remained in positional warfare and then fought at Kovel.

All through he avoided positional warfare with the Mughals and confined himself to sudden and intrepid attacks.

Because 2nd Russian field defense line was never breached Germans were forces into positional warfare on this part of the front until beginning of July.

The war was dominated by what may be called 'positional warfare' - the construction, defence, and attack of fortresses and entrenched lines.

Afterwards, it returned to positional warfare along the Chemin des Dames.

In November 1916, the division was transferred to the Eastern Front, where it engaged in positional warfare until June 1917.

It spent the rest 0f 1917 and the first part of 1918 in positional warfare near Reims and in fighting around Verdun.

It then went to Flanders and the Artois, where it remained engaged in positional warfare until June 1916.

For the next three weeks, positional warfare ensued; both sides attacked and counterattacked for minor tactical advantage on the Anglo-Canadian front.

It remained in positional warfare before Daugavpils until April 1917, after which it was transferred to the Western Front.