On the basis of the information they had been fed by Government propaganda - you have been given precise details of what that iformation was and how it was delivered
Your star witness (Gary Sheffield) appears to have blown up in your face, he has ether been misrepresented by you (almost certain), has changed his mind or has not done his job properly.
You have yet to comment on the fiasco of sending an unprepared and inadequately sized army in to be wiped out at Mons.
The programme reported that the divine intervention of The Angel of Mons was a result of the men being traumatised by their defeat.
"a mere "mobbing" exercise"
The Chocolate Soldier rides again.
What you are trying to say is that Keith is the sole jingoist contributing to this debate, he started that way and has had no support whatever - he remains in the minority of one (you don't count - you've stayed back at headquarters while Keith has been conducting his one-man campaign - just like the Generals, senior officers and politicians.
The facts presented in last night's programme,( on the competence of the military leadership, the morale among soldiers, the reasons why men joined, the information they were given, their being forced and tricked into joining..... cut the legs completely from under every single one of his arguments
Your soemwhat late interventio here is a little like the lads who went in after the Little Big Horn Massacre to pick up the pieces.
Dis-miss Corporal Terminus
Jim Carroll