Satellite imagery is helping troops endure old-school trench warfare. And Ukrainian fighters have been busting out machine guns that are more than 100 years old. Subscribe to Task & Purpose Today.

Ukrainian troops train for trench warfare near France's WW1 battlefields By John Irish November 15, 20245:34 AM PSTUpdated November 15, 2024 ...

Trench warfare often includes close-quarters fighting, and the Tommy gun was the perfect replacement for the old, longer rifles that stretched out five feet with the bayonet attached.

Russia is building an extensive network of static defenses to stop further Ukrainian advances. But trench warfare, so effective in WW1, is no match for precision drone bombing.

The scene could be 3,000 km (1,860 miles) away in Ukraine's Donbas region, but instead some 2,000 Ukrainian conscripts and veterans are training in the muddy fields of France's eastern Marne ...