More selective quoting from Keith A of Hertford. As I said, Dr Gary Sheffield concluded that senior military leaders were both callous and incompetent. He also mitigated on the basis you can't be stupid and wrong all the time, although Haig did have a good stab at it.

I am aware, as someone who reads a bit of Mudcat banter that there are a few people under the umbrella name Musket. I am also aware through reading that they seem to have the usual suspects weighed up. But isn't it amazing that anybody who points out (it isn't difficult) the glaring outrageousness of such people get accused of being Musket.

I don't know any of them but I'm sure they must be laughing if any of them read this. I see a similar complaint in other threads by someone at the same level of intellect and reason as Keith A of Hertford. Are you sure it's Hertford and not somewhere in Scotland?

For the record, I have read Sheffield's assessment but disagree on some of his conclusions. His verdicts don't always follow his own evidence, an elementary mistake but understandable if your pressure comes from book publishers. He got it right but looked for too many exceptions with which to sanitise a rotten lot.