As no-one would appear to have any comments relating to the British Army which started the war as a force of 440,000 men and ended it about ten times that size, then I would draw the attention of those who are of the opinion that its leadership was incompetent to the organisational skills required to expand, train, equip and deploy that number of men from scratch up to the point where in 1916 Great Britain's first citizen army saw off the best the Germans could throw at them.