Which seems to be a damned site more than you know.

I suggest before you go too far you read a soldier's account or two. I have. My Uncle Albert was a desert rat and went through Italy. He was fascinated with Spike Milligan's memoirs as he felt he captured the essence.

Are you saying, in order to defend your view that the first war was well led, that you are willing to say the second wasn't?

Go and have a lie down you old fool.