if you can't be arsed to look for opinions that don't chime with your own predjudices, you won't find them. you'll be stuck with bollock brained mental froth of the Farages. there does seem to be some sort of campaign on to excuse the aristo scum - the internet is full of 'historians' with the stuff Keith is coming out with. However there are people telling the truth as our grandparents remembered it.

'Sir Douglas Haig was strongly influenced through his time serving as a cavalry officer in the Queens Hussars and it is evident that he employed these cavalry tactics in his strategies. This influence affected his leader ship in a highly detrimental way and resulted in the loss of numerous lives thus making his leadership through out WW1 to be poor and ineffective. This can be seen through the battle of the Somme in which Haig, ordered from his chateau, that men are to be sent in waves over the trenches and charge in an attempt to capture and over run German trenches, this was unsuccessful and resulted in the deaths over 60,000 men.

The industrial revolution brought about the production of gun and ammunition in large quantity's this turn changed the nature of warfare and very much saw the end of sword and cavalry battle. Haig's leader ship and approach towards warfare was highly out dated as he was not aware of the demands of the advancement with in warfare. Haig quoted in 1915 " The machine gun is a much over rated weapon" through this quote we can see Haig's inability to see the significance of the advanced weaponry with in the war and in turn making his leadership in WW1 detrimental.

Haig's leadership was also in part affective due to his inability to be present with in the front-line, and his lack of experience with in trench war far. Haig gave commands from a chateau located behind the front line, this is turn meant that he could not make effective and justified decisions in the best of interest of the war and his troops. Historians will argue that if in fact Haig was present on the front line then his decision's and his leader ship may have be significantly better.'

Alex Jenkins