... artillery support than her opponents. The Russian military continued to be weak due to the lack of their gunmen's capacity, especially in her gun walls. Her infantry was also proved weak in practice as they only carried small stocks of ammo with them and at the front line. In the new age of machine guns and trench warfare, the Russian army still used the 0.299 inch rifle that had been introduced in 1891, and many of the older infantry officers still relied on the old bayonet charge, even though that tactic had been discredited. This is not to say that the army contained of no machine gunmen, but it was a very small amount, despite the loss in the Russo-Japanese war. Furthermore, when juxtaposed with most of the generals from her allies and enemies, the Russian generals knew very little about the construction of trenches or advanced strategies of warfare. ...

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