My kid’s got a test on WWI in the morning. Going over the Battle of Frontiers. Holy frijoles the casualties.
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Have him watch “Blackadder” if he does well.pic.twitter.com/xvDHwM5yhi
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Yeah, the casualties were horrific in WWII as well. Almost an entire generation of men in participating countries was either killed or maimed.
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The Battle of Jutland alone was more than total US casualties in the GWOT.
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You can understand why the men who went through that ended up saying “Do we *really* care that much about Czechoslovakia?” until a little too late.
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Considering the scale of their casualties it’s amazing the French Army was able to basically turn on a dime and counterattack at the Marne as they did.
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But yeah, a British liaison with the French Army in August 1914 wrote, “The sense of the tragic futility of it will never quite fade. many of these gallant officers thought it chic to die in white gloves.”
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The British had a Vietnam in ONE DAY at the Somme.
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That's just so crazy
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I've been reading Martin Gilbert's history of ww1: statements on the order of "10,000 attacked, 7,000 were killed" aren't uncommon.
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John Keegan makes a good observation in his "The First World War:" the firepower of divisions by 1914 had far outstripped the ability of armies to control and direct it. There was slaughter, but it was often to no purpose because of primitive communications tech.
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Keegan's book is a great one. I also like Hew Strachan's and SLA Marshall. I found Martin Gilbert's a little unfocused.
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