To answer yet another of your stupid questions I thought that I had covered that in the last paragraph Musket - all down to a German chap called Falkenhayn - he had this whizzer of an idea to fire millions of artillery shells at the French who were in defensive positions around Verdun - his intention was to kill as many of them as he possibly could - The French had different ideas and in the end - even by judging the occupancy rate of the cemeteries - the French won.

Besides Musket according to you it was only the British Generals who were incompetent fools wasn't it? No British Generals present at Verdun. The French General who ultimately turned things round at Verdun, a guy called Petain, realised that troops cannot be kept constantly at the from and instigated a scheme by which all units were rotated in and out of the line - something those incompetent British Generals had being doing right from the start - fortunately the Germans, who were pushed for manpower, didn't pick up on this and as the war wore on the morale of their troops suffered badly - no rest at all either in the front line trenches or in the rearward areas.