"Jim, I only put forward 3 views."
You are lying
You have claimed 80 per cent of the soldiers knew what they were fighting for - 'gallant little Belgium' - to oppose tyrany... and all the other bullshit.
You aclaimed that the fourteen reasons I drew from an official historically copiled lists of the reasons for joining as inventions on my part
You have called those who actually joined up as "liars and romantics"
You have rejected long accepted understanding of WW1 -the facts we were taught in school as "revisionist and romantic nonsense" and "ultra leftie propaganda".
Your jingoistic war has been fought on all fronts, now you have been defeated by one single programme, you have retreated back into your trench and are firing that targets that haven't even been put up yet.   
You have denied established history and have ridiculed the historians and the soldiers who fought the war by dismissing their life -long researches and their personal experiences out of hand.
You have surrounded yourself with a bunch of 'historians' (not forgetting your tabloid journalist - of course) who in the main haven't even said what you claim they said.
A war fought with only a handful of carefully selected out-of-context cut-'n-pastes was bound to end up as it has - in complete anihilation.
Hands up Tommy - for you the war is over.
"I'd love to know how Mons could be considered as a defeat"
Ask the programme makers - you pontificating little bar-room brigadier you.
"saving human lives was not the priority"
Amen to that - it was always a struggle for Empire.
If human life had ever been a factor in the thinking of them upstairs they would have raised their voices in protest at Belgium's slaughter of 10 million Congolese up to five years earlier - not a whisper then or now.
Jim Carroll