Some plain stark facts for Musket and Christmas to take in.

During the summer months of 1914 Germany and the Central Powers made sure that they were fully ready for what they honestly hoped would be a short and successful war - they engineered and manipulated a war that they ultimately lost.

Germany lost 2,476,897 dead or 3.82% of its entire population.
Great Britain lost 995,939 dead or 2.19% of its entire population.

In terms of military deaths:
Germany lost 2,050,897
British Empire lost 956,703
Britain lost 704,803

So who was better led considering that Britain was in 1914 nowhere near ready to go to war?

Remember that "horrendous British defeat" at Mons Christmas where for every single British soldier killed by the Germans, the British killed three Germans. Well "rounded down" and "rounded up" the British seem to have kept that up right the way through the war to emerge victorious in November 1918.

"Lions led by Donkeys" = In general terms a complete and utter Myth.