An amalgamation of consensus coupled with historical fact and present day evidence.

The sanitisation of military incompetence, political blunder and callous indifference to those in your charge are there

WHAT amalgamation of concensus? Those put forward as representing views similar to your own fall into two categories:

1 - Revisionists who wrote about the Great War between 1929 and 1969

2 - "Historians" who are not specialists in the subject

WHAT historical "Facts" as far as can be seen from this thread and others on the same subject you have not put forward any FACTS and you have been completely unable to refute those put forward by either Keith A, myself or by others

WHAT present day evidence calls into question the work of modern day historians who are writing and studying the period in question armed with far better knowledge and information than any who have covered the same work previously.

The second paragraph is just a collection of tired old cliches:

What military incompetence to the likes of you lot the military is always incompetent - funny but going by track record I wish that our politicians, leaders of industry and trades unions had proved to have been half as effective and willing to adapt to new ideas and technology as the the military have proved to be.

Political Blunder - nothing new there, but not with regard to the First World War, The German Emperor wanted the war and he got it, not a single thing anyone else could have done about it.

As for "callous indifference" - again only YOUR OPINION, but in time of war the political leadership of any country has committed itself to putting people deliberately into harms way with the inevitable result that some will get killed both civilian and military and if numbers of dead are the metric you judge things by then the British were less "callously indifferent" than many others.