I think I asked, and I reckon someone else has;

If the men were well led, (and none of the sources Keith A of Hertford has put forward has said this in the general terms he says they have) why all the dead bodies?

Was the strategy of sending waves of men over the top, seeing them get mown down by machine guns and sending the next lot after them a sign of good leadership?

I doubt any historian, academic or sensationalist journalist would make that mental leap. I doubt any academic body in The UK would wish to be associated with such tripe.

If the military leaders weren't donkeys, they planned and made a decision that led to huge casualties.

Which was it? Sheer incompetence or callous criminality?

"Send three and fourpence, we are going to a dance."