books.google.ca - A war of attrition is usually conceptualized as a bloody slogging match, epitomized by imagery of futile frontal assaults on the Western Front of the First World War. As such, many academics, politicians, and military officers currently consider attrition to be a wholly undesirable method of warfare....http://books.google.ca/books/about/A_history_of_modern_wars_of_attrition.html?id=Xxu2iEEKi-IC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareA history of modern wars of attrition
