trench systems
Interconnected military ditches
Trench systems are networks of fortified ditches dug into the ground for military defense, most associated with World War I's Western Front.
They typically included front-line trenches facing the enemy, support trenches behind, and communication trenches connecting them.
The elaborate systems featured dugouts, firing steps, and barbed wire barriers: Both sides settled into trench systems that stretched from Switzerland to the sea.
- going overExamining with scrutiny
- dugoutsRecessed team benches
- foxholesMilitary defensive excavations
- barbed wireSpiked metal fence material
- sandbagsFilled sacks for barriers
rift valleys · shell craters · bunkers · Verdun · fortifications · front line · subduction zones · pillboxes · hydrothermal vents · ocean floor · duckboards · Western Front · parapets · World War I · camouflage nets · tectonic boundaries · plate tectonics · fault lines
trench systemsopen ground
no man's land · armored columns · open terrain · naval vessels · air warfare
trench systemsmobile warfare
Combat emphasizing movement over position
blitzkrieg · cavalry charges · guerrilla warfare · naval warfare · lightning war
trench systemsopen terrain