DO YOU DENY THAT THE PROGRAMMES ENDORSED BOTH OF MY VIEWS THAT WERE ADDRESSED?????
Of course they were't - not in the slightest degree
You claimed that the war was well led
The first programme dealt with the Mons fiasco - the fact that the British Government sent troops there to be slaughtered, humiliated and finally forced to retreat, a premature action by a Government "sleepwalking into war" as one of the professional historians entitled his book.
Both programmes made it clear that the Mons fiasco showed that the premature knee-jerk reaction of the British military had totally misjudged German military strength and that rather than send in the undersized, under-trained and totally unprepared existing army, it was necessary to create one capable of putting up a fight rather - it took 18 months to come to terms with this fact, before they copped on and introduced compulsory conscription.
The second programme dealt with Kitchener's blunder in providing the wrong shells and his proffering his resignation over the affair, eventually having to be prepared.
The end of programme two showed how Britain was totally misjudge the resistance of the Germans on the Somme, how troops, led on to believing that they would only need "umbrellas as cover" by (heavily censored and manipulated) press reports and by the same being told to them by their officers and were cut down by massive resistance.
The British people's understanding of and commitment to the war.
That the "war would be over by Christmas was one of the pieces of misinformation put out by both the (heavily censored and manipulated) press and by the officers in charge.
The last programme also dealt with the uncontrolled profiteering of landlords and businesses which was only acted on when people were thrown out of their homes and began to mount protests - where does this fit into a "well conducted " war?
What part of any of this "ENDORSED" one single one of your views.
As you seem totally incapable of handling anything larger than a cut-'n-paste" I'll deal with the people's consciousness of what they were fighting for later.
I will also deal with your lie about never commenting on anything else in full - and thoroughly enjoy doing so.
Jim Carroll