Jim,
Margaret McMillan's claims on the conduct of the war show that she doesn't back your case in any way

What claims? I have read her book.
Your lies are exposed when she says,
""The wartime generals were not all cowards and incompetents as Alan Clark argued in his infamous The Donkeys (1961). A new generation of British historians, among others, has done much to explode such lazy generalisation and show that commanders developed both strategies and tactics that, in the end, worked."
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/7b6f0490-6347-11e3-a87d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2oJ9WwKyd"
IN CONTEXT JIM!

Nothing in your review of Hastings' book contradicts any of my claims.
For the THIRD TIME OF ASKING, show any bit that does.

Clark's The Sleepwalkers; the entire book was based on the premise

That book is about the events prior to the invasion of Belgium in August 1914.
I have expressed no opinion about any of that.