Fury at Def Sec over Helicopter Shortage

[Modern Elmo]

If we change the way we do things so will they, perversely we could make ourselves more vulnerable.

... said Gen. Haig in 1916.

... On the morning of July 1, 1916, 110,000 British infantrymen went “over the top.” In a few hours, 60,000 of them were casualties. Nearly 20,000 of these were either dead already or would die of their wounds, many of them lingering for days between the trenches, in no man’s land. The attacking forces did not gain a single one of their objectives.

Even so, a staff colonel had the cheek to write: “The events of July 1st bore out the conclusions of the British higher command and amply justified the tactical methods employed.” ...


Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig: World War I’s Worst General HistoryNet