True that. Hapsburgs and Romanovs come to mind.
And the military strategists? Never heard of a tactic other than frontal assault? How could two generals be so incompetent as to fight 12 Battles of the Isonzo and nobody won any of them?
The Austrians and Germans generally fought in the west and south using whomever they had available, and that was typically not a lot of manpower. If the Central Powers (in particular, Germany) had sustained the losses of the French and British -- to this day the fake histories say they did -- Germany wouldn't have been able to fight WWII. The Italians were suckered into joining the Entente, and the claim used was that the Central Powers were "running out of men". It was quite the other way. Once the Italians ran into defensible terrain, they didn't know any better than to make frontal assaults on dug-in troops and fortifications, while steadily under superior artillery fire. Same goes for the British and French.