Obviously, this was a tactic typical of the Imperial infantry. Investment of maximum human and material resources to achieve goals. Compare the death toll from the unions, it differ several times. From the side of the USSR and China alone, about 50-60 million died. And Germany lost less than 10 in the entire 2 war, and it was the main participant.
Different sources give different figures, but all agree that the losses of the British allies were orders of magnitude greater
In the battle of Dubno alone, with a numerical advantage in units of military equipment several times on the part of the USSR, they lost half of the equipment produced during the industrialization period in 10 years