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To: Ravnagora
That war was so horrible Europe has still not recovered. Was there anyone back then who was talking about an alternative strategy to trench warfare? I know tanks were invented as a response, but anyone who has studied military history knows that frontal assaults are just plain stupid, and that armies need to use indirection with a goal of NOT fighting. In that regard, didn't someone early on point out the futility of trench warfare going back and forth over a few miles? Or did they just soldier on?

Early in the war, soldiers on both sides sang Christmas carols to each other. By the end of the war, they just wanted to kill the other side and get it done with. Perhaps that war played as big a role as anything in killing off Christianity in Europe.

I too love Hastings' work. Perhaps he has an answer to my questions in this book.

10 posted on 10/26/2013 12:58:32 PM PDT by Defiant (GOPe Strategy: We have to fund Obamacare in order to see how bad it is. Good idea, guys!)
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To: Defiant

My Great Uncle, Newfoundland Regiment British Army, that if he knew then the realities he have hid in the woods with the Frenchies.( Exact Quote.)


14 posted on 10/26/2013 1:42:59 PM PDT by Little Bill (A)
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To: Defiant
That war was so horrible Europe has still not recovered.

I second that. The 20th century was a long period of decline. Christianity in decline. Freedom in decline. Culture in decline. We did develop toys and technology (I won't complain about antibiotics and computers) but so much of the 20th century was movement away from what a Conservative would like to see.

I blame WWI (and the Progressives) for really getting the bad trip going.

16 posted on 10/26/2013 1:45:59 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: Defiant
A most unnecessary war, and it accomplished little but set the stage for the multitude of tragedies that plagued the rest of the 20th century.

My great grandfather fought (likely lied about his age) in the Spanish American War in Puerto Rico, and thought it fine sport. He was a Captain in the AEF and was part of an assault across a pontoon bridge in the face of machine gun fire in France. His opinion of war was decidedly different after that.

26 posted on 10/26/2013 3:18:15 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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