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Thread #156062   Message #3679860
Posted By: Teribus
25-Nov-14 - 09:06 AM
Thread Name: Oh! What a Lovely War! - BBC Radio 2
Subject: RE: Oh! What a Lovely War! - BBC Radio 2
Who put measures in place to coerce others into what genocide Musket?

You're beginning to froth just like Steve.

The casualty rates you have been given - The UK's were roughly half those of either Germany or France yet it was OUR Generals who were the incompetent fools.

German armed forces 1914 - 4.5 million by 1918 they had mobilised roughly 11 million - so they roughly doubled in size

Austro-Hungarian forces in 1914 - 3 million by 1918 they had mobilised 7.8 million so they too had just over doubled in size

Russia 5.9 million in 1914 by 1917 that had just over doubled in size to 12 million

France 4 million in 1914 just over doubled in size to 8.4 million

Great Britain had armed forces of 0.9 million in 1914 by 1918 had increased almost tenfold to 8.9 million.

So not only did our Generals develop and perfect the tactics and weapons required to break the stalemate of trench warfare on the Western Front then go on to spearhead the most successfully offensive campaign ever conducted by the British Army in its entire history. Hold down our casualty rates to roughly half of those of our allies and of our enemies. They were responsible for overseeing the largest expansion of any of the 1914 combatant powers at the same time and it was OUR Generals who were incompetent fools - You really do have to be joking - as someone else asked what planet are you on?