In these and subsequent battles Hostile_encounter , Seoul changed Change hands four times , and the last two years of fighting Hostile_encounter became Becoming a war Hostile_encounter of attrition , with the front line close to the 38th Parallel .

The Red Army absorbed Ingestion the Wehrmacht 's strongest blows and forced Causation the Germans into a war of attrition for which they were unprepared Response .

Cadorna had intended to ensure such a breakthrough in the wake of the capture Conquering of Gorizia during the Sixth Battle of the Isonzo , but instead the war of attrition gathered Come_together pace .

Post-war writing by senior German officers like Hermann von Kuhl , Gerhard Tappen , Wilhelm Groener and the historians led by the former ( Lieutenant-Colonel ) Wolfgang Förster , managed Preventing_or_letting to establish a commonly accepted narrative that it was the failure to follow the blueprint by Moltke the Younger , rather than German strategic miscalculation , that condemned Judgment_communication the belligerents to four years of attrition warfare instead of the quick , decisive conflict it `` should '' have been .

The castles of the period were easily defensible , and so the fighting was mostly attrition warfare , comprising Cause_to_be_included sieges , raiding and skirmishing between armies of knights and footsoldiers , many of them mercenaries .

The Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) became Becoming the main separatist group in 1977 , expelling Removing the ELF from Eritrea , then exploiting the Ogaden War to launch Process_start a war of attrition against Ethiopia .

Due to the attrition in regiments prior to that date , the 8th South Carolina Infantry comprised Cause_to_be_included 14 officers and 92 men .

A strategy of attrition Hostile_encounter ( ) would make Causation the cost Cost of the war Hostile_encounter too great for the Allies , until one made a separate peace .

The autumn battles Hostile_encounter in Flanders had become Becoming static , attrition operations Military_operation , unlike the battles Hostile_encounter of manoeuvre in the summer .