Hollywood mocked them for being spectacularly unprepared for trench warfare when Americans had created it 50 years earlier.
I was unaware of this.. I'm assuming you're talking about the Civil War?
I was always under the assumption it was a mix of "organized warfare", firing lines, square formations against cavalry, all of that, and "maneuver warfare" where cover and concealment was used routinely.
Trench warfare though, it had not occurred to me that we made it, essentially.
Americans are good at war, I've noticed. The Germanic blood gives us an edge.
I'm assuming you're talking about the Civil War?
Yep. We invented it in 1864. The Siege of Petersburg was 9 months of trench warfare outside of Richmond.
As I recall, in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Indy lies his way into the Jew-K army to serve in WW1 and winds up imprisoned with the absolute faggot communist Charles de Gaulle. In this arc, the effete Allied Euros are kvetching about the "newfound" horrors of trench warfare and Indy is pretty much "Bruh, don't you know history? 1864: The Battle of Cold Harbor"
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