History A-Level
Military adaptation and innovation
What Military adaptation and innovation means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Military adaptation and innovation
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Stalemate forced military adjustment, with commanders developing new tactics and technologies aimed at restoring mobility.
Topics that use Military adaptation and innovation
- Paper 3, Option 35.2: The British experience of warfare, c1790–1918 - 4 Trench warfare on the Western Front, 1914–18 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Attrition and breakthrough
- Causation of stalemate
- Development of trench warfare
- Government control of information
- Propaganda and censorship
- Public and soldier morale
- Role of the media in wartime
- Technological and tactical change
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