[minnesota_bound]

Never understood how you can order thousands of men to rush into artillery and machine gun fire and expect them to survive let alone win the battle. Order it once and you would think they would realize how stupid that is.

Top 10 Deadliest Battles of World War I
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-bloodiest-battles-of-world-war-i.php

[Retain Mike]

Even the most capable of generals seemed to have that problem. With the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, I am working my way through about 60 or so books I have on the subject. I always wonder how R.E. Lee could order Picket’s Charge after riding over the battlefield at Malvern Hill and seeing what Union artillery had done to his infantry. I suspect the Europeans ignored our war because it was conducted by a bunch of armatures, and instead focused on the Franco-Prussian War that lasted only weeks.

And thanks for the link. I like to have something like that available as I revise my D-Day letter about the anxieties that Eisenhower had to be overcome from the experiences of WWI.

[OneHun]

“Never understood how you can order thousands of men to rush into artillery and machine gun fire and expect them to survive let alone win the battle.”

 

Easy, in this kind of scenarios, they always send the newly recruited nationals from the previously occupied territories to the front lines.  So, the Austrians were using the Hungarians, Slovaks, Croatians, and other nationalities to save Austrian blood.