How does Remarque portray the technological and military innovations of the war? How do those innovations affect the lives of the soldiers?

WW1 brought technological innovations like poison gas, the machine gun, and trench warfare. While medical innovations lacked the science of violence put both soldiers and animals (horses for example) in a very dangerous position. WE see, for example, Kemmerick slowly die from a light wound and horses scream in unnatural terror from the bombs and guns that shred their flesh. THe introduction of poisonous gas to the trenches was also horrible.