Edexcel GCSE History · 1HI0
Paper 1, Paper 3
A strategy of wearing down an enemy’s manpower and resources until it can no longer continue fighting.
Revise: The Experience of WarWars of attrition aimed to wear down an enemy’s manpower and resources. As warfare expanded, civilians also became targets rather than remaining separate from the fighting. Worldwide deaths indicate the scale of the consequences: approximately 10 million combatants died in the First World War; the Second World War killed approximately 15 million combatants and 45 million civilians.
- Revise: Reasons for Failure
A strategy intended to wear down an enemy by inflicting continuing losses until it can no longer fight.