Quote from one of Keiths beloved Historians: (05.50AM)

"it really is an extraordinary example of a well planned, well conducted military operation on the Western Front in world war one, you don't have too many of those".

That, to me, suggests that many other Military operations were not well planned or well conducted.

One of YOUR Historians Keith, not one we have "invented", presumably one who is still alive and "knows the truth" about what really happened.