The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #156088   Message #3678593
Posted By: Musket
20-Nov-14 - 04:41 AM
Thread Name: WWI, was No-Man's Land
Subject: RE: WWI, was No-Man's Land
Why "dig out" facts? This is a debate, not a race to see who can find the most trivia on the internet, fool.

If you love digging, dig out the AJP Taylor bits on WW2 where he writes at length of the senior officers who were better leaders because they were junior officers in the first war and learned from seeing the "awful mistakes and rhetoric" of their old commanding officers.

In the meantime, search for photos of "white crosses" and "white rectangular headstones that don't scan so well in a song" and ask yourself how competent leadership leads to this.

Fool Take II