"It looked like the assurances we see in the works of Hastings, Sheffield and others, spewing statistics to prove the outcome bears no relationship to the cause.

The countless white crosses in Mute witness stand..... To what? Being well led?"

Not really sure what all the waffle about the NHS was about - totally meaningless - we are after all discussing whether or not an army was well led or not - Anybody with a modicum of common sense can tell you that for all the £billions that has been thrown at the NHS in terms of organisation and administration it is a moribund farce and totally inefficient - in short a bloody disgrace.

"Countless white crosses in mute witness stand??"

Well for a start no British or Commonwealth troops lie under any "white crosses" there are none - only plain white headstones of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. But there again Bogle has always been good at anti-war rhetoric and sentiment but never really very good at detail.

But taking it at face value, what those white headstones and the black German crosses show is that their young men died at three times the rate that ours did - so I ask you again, if number of headstones/crosses is your metric, which side was better led?