You have said it was well-run and necessary

No.
I have said that the army was well led, and you yourself said there was "a necessity to fight."

The recruits were lied to and misled

Not by the government.

You have gathered together a dispirite bunch of historians, all saying different things on different aspects of the war

Completely untrue.
My views are those of the historians, and no historian supports your discredited, outdated myths about this conflict.