Using tactics stolen from the French or adapted by Oskar Von Hutier, the Stormtrooper Corps went on the offensive.
What was different about the stormtroopers was how they took an old, used formula and turned it into something new and brilliant. Canada had an expeditionary corps, France had its chasseurs, Austria had the Jagdkommandos and Italy had the Arditi. Now, by 1916, shock troopers were nothing new. By 1916, this way of fighting had reached a stalemate. Getting past the wire (and the snipers), he would then have to fight his way through three lines of enemy soldiers and booby traps. Even without the threat of mortar strikes or enemy machine guns posts, the trenches themselves posed an extremely punishing obstacle: getting across the field without stepping on a landmine or drowning in mud, a soldier would be confronted by several layers of barbed wire. Casualties were high and progress was little. Setting its politics and history aside, the Great War was characterised by one thing: trench warfare- a slow and miserable business that could drag on for months (or sometimes even years), where enemy soldiers would dig miles upon miles of trench line before hitting each other with an artillery bombardment followed by an all-out frontal assault. To understand the origins of the stormtroopers, we must first understand the nature of the conflict that necessitated their creation: the First World War (1914-1918).
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