WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Stalemate describes a condition in war in which neither side can change the front lines dramatically no matter how hard it tries. WWII never reached stalemate in Europe. The opponents alternated offensive and defensive campaigns but were almost always moving. World War I epitomized stalemate.

Detailed explanation-2: -The conventional explanation for why the Western Front in World War I settled into a stalemate is that the power of defensive weapons was stronger than the offensive methods employed.

Detailed explanation-3: -The First World War is, in part, the story of the battle of the whale against the elephant: each supreme in its own element, but neither able to defeat the other. Thinking in the very broadest terms, it is perhaps not surprising that much of the First World War was spent in stalemate.

Detailed explanation-4: -By Nicholas Murray. Attrition warfare is the term used to describe the sustained process of wearing down an opponent so as to force their physical collapse through continuous losses in personnel, equipment and supplies or to wear them down to such an extent that their will to fight collapses.