" Jom and Musktwat originally then Raggy all claim categorically that summary executions were carried out "
Didn't you miss out the soldiers who were there and claimed they happened - course you did - "the liars"!!
Far easier to rely on establishment reports (which you have never at any time produced to deny they happened - though they were widely rumored to have taken place - lying soldiers eh)
"ALL the wartime Generals were cowards and incompetents"
The generals and politicians conducting the wars were incompetents because of the fiascos at Loos and the Dardanelles, the highest level of casualties in the early days of the Somme, the sending of the wrong ammunition and the fact that the politicians and military hated each other so much they couldn't get their act together - not because some historian coming along a century later says they were or weren't.
Address those facts and you might have th makings of an argument, and while you're at it, perhaps you might explain why sending wave after wave of young men to their deaths till one side gave in can possibly be described as anything but good butchery.
They're the ones you have studiously avoided throughout th length of these arguments.
It doesn't take a qualified historian to explain any of these - just to explain them away, as you pair of Blimps have.
Jim Carroll
I wonder are you also disillusioned enough to believe that your permanent sneery talking down to people constitutes good writing?