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WWI quickly became a war of attrition due to the failure of Germany's Schlieffen Plan, the overestimation of each nation's own strength, and war time technology changes. Germany planned to outflank and conquer France in mere weeks, and then turn the full might of their military on the slowly mobilizing Russians. The Russians moved quicker than expected and the Germans were unable to swiftly defeat France. The implementation of new technologies such as the machine gun, allowed defensive armies to create an impenetrable line. The inability of any nation to fully defeat the other turned this quick, cleansing war into a bloody, drawn-out conflict.

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How Germany failed at the Schlieffen Plan-- How that made it a longer war

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New technologies

Paragraph 3: The inability to dominate the others army