Coleridge's pice entitles "the eolian harp"
...hey were not powerful enough to break the wire, simply tangle it more and the German trenches were so deep that the fire did net even reach them, most of the German army was thirty feet deep in concrete bunkers waiting for the attacks.. The army was made up of volunteers, the professional army had all been killed, this meant that the men were inexperienced in these terrible battle conditions. The tactics that the general could use were therefore kept simple to help the men. The only tactic that was used in the Battle of The Somme was sending men over the top. This was used by both sides as the only way to get any results. It proved highly inefficient; the men were simply sent out to die, day after day. This tactic was another reason that no objectives were met. After the bombardments the men would be sent over to take the trenches, because the artillery was unreliable the men could not take the enemy lines and the battle would continue. No change to the plans was ever made, partly because of the simplicity that any tactic would have to be and partly because of the detachment to the Generals and other officers from the front lines. Haig would be some 50 miles back while his troops fought and therefore would be totally reliant on reports fed to him. These would come from officers in the trenches afraid to report the all too often failure to capture any trenches, this meant that the report would not be accurate to the situation, causing to Haig to carry on an attack even if it was worthless. The plan was also never changed because of the unfamiliar war that many officers found themselves in. Haig was a ca...