The First World War witnessed a horrendous number of casualties. It is partly for this reason that some historians have developed the impression that commanders on both sides were dependent on a single disastrous approach to break the stalemate. These historians attributed the loss of life to the soldiers charging across no-man's land only to be mowed down by enemy machine guns. The accuracy of this claim is misleading, however, as the Germans and Allies developed and used various tactics during the war. The main reason for the Allies' battlefield success and eventual victory came from the transformation of battlefield tactics; nevertheless, morality played a major role in greatly affecting the development of new tactics and the final outcome of the war. Tactics in the early stages of the war led to the massacre of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and a huge loss of morale on the part of the Allies. . Originally, the Allies employed Napoleonic-era tactics that relied heavily on infantry lined up shoulder to shoulder and advancing across fields. The French further claimed that if they attacked with superior morale, they could defeat any enemy. Due to the widespread use of machine guns and long-range rifles, these tactics resulted in enormous casualties. The French and British also continued to channel their soldiers into failed offensives, even though the battle resulted in little or no gain, further leading to a decline in morale. With thousands of soldiers dead, armies could no longer continue to fight with these tactics, otherwise they would cease to exist or soldiers would refuse to continue fighting. When Allied soldiers began to refuse to return to the front lines, their officers, in response, made compromises to retain what...... middle of paper ......gave up to withdraw or be cut off from their supplies. The German high command, at this point, knew that they could no longer continue fighting and that they had to surrender or face annihilation. Tactical changes within the two main armies fighting on the Western Front would eventually lead to battlefield success for both sides while also leading to an imminent victory for the Allies. The Germans, on the one hand, developed the use of combined arms, Stormtroopers. These soldiers, while extremely successful, also led to a destruction of German morale and reserves due to the high casualty rate. On the other hand, the Allies countered their initial tactical failures by maintaining their morality and developing their own tactics. These new tactics included the creeping barrage, the deep difeme, and the bite and grab. By combining them with real strategy, the Allies defeated the weakened German army..