June 1915
The thinking of all the top generals on the allied side has been focused on finding the one heroic master stroke battle that would turn the tide and result in general victory. Based on his experience on the Eastern front, a rising general, named Herri-Phillippe Petain, is proposing a new paradigm for this war. "Success will come, in the final analysis, to the side which has the last man." It is an example of a new type of war, the war of attrition. Joffre and Kitchner are at a loss to know what this will mean to military strategy.
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