Keith
A quick scoop from a past thread "conining yourself to only three issues and "agreeing with McMillan about the blame for the war - ad I only went back to 2014.
As I said, you defended every aspect of the war from day one.
Jim Carroll

29 Dec 13 - 01:54 PM
Not relevant to Britain in 1914.
They were faced with aggressive, invading German armies rampaging across Europe towards the English Channel, massacring civilians and children as they went.
No-one chose that implacable enemy.
They just had to deal with it.

29 Dec 13 - 02:07 PM
Remember where the German armies were at Xmas 1914.
Where would they have been had they not been stopped at huge cost and sacrifice by the Allied forces?
It was nice that they stopped trying to push deeper into France and Belgium on Xmas day, and nice that the allies could stop resisting them.
It would have been nicer had they returned to their own borders.

30 Dec 13 - 12:54 PM
Are you quite sure you saw that sniper thing in The Week?
Which issue?
How did moving snipers prevent fraternising?
How would they know where to put them?
How would they know they were not best placed already?
It takes time to prepare a hide, so how long in advance?
It sounds a bit made up.
I have never heard of such a thing.
Why do you say it is "well documented" ?