Reading post 83750 in main thread: human wave tactics
January 19th, 2005  
A Can of Man
 
 
For Japan it was more of a last ditch thing. For the Soviets, Chinese and perhaps also the North Koreans in some cases it was the order of the day. Even by the time of Dien Bien Phu it was clear that the human wave tactic was useful for only those with so many troops that a general just had to get rid of them and General Giap largely abandoned it.
The reason why the link between China and human wave tactic keeps coming up here is because China is the more frequent topic than any of the others.
 
 
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