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This is an incredible misunderstanding of WW1. While there were some generals that were a bit too resistant to changing strategy when it might have seemed reas
by tekla 1y ago
This is an incredible misunderstanding of WW1.
While there were some generals that were a bit too resistant to changing strategy when it might have seemed reasonable, the fact of the matter is, is that this was the 1910s.
Everyone was trying to solve the problem of trying to figure out how to fight, and no one could keep up with how fast warfare was changing. Armchair generals watching people die in almost real time from drone footage in Europe did not exist in 1915.
- ChrisMarshallNY 1y agoI’m not sure it’s a “misunderstanding.” Maybe calling them “incompetent,” isn’t fair, but they made a shitton of terrible strategic and tactical blunders, that resulted in millions of casualties. Why they made those decisions sounds like exactly what you’re talking about.