[ SECRET POST #5006 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5006 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Controversial Unpopular Opinions?

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like Blackadder did a good job of showcasing the bad ones. And unfortunately the bad ones caused the death of many of their men. 'Walk slowly towards the enemy' was a genuine tactic used even though the Germans had machine guns.

Re: Controversial Unpopular Opinions?

[(Anonymous)]

'Walk slowly towards the enemy' was a genuine tactic used even though the Germans had machine guns.

It's important to keep in mind that WWI was fought with tons of completely novel technology. No one who fought in WWI knew how to deal with the new environment of warfare. The story of the war for every army is slowly figuring out how to carry out warfare under WWI conditions. That's a long iterative process where they have ideas, fuck up a bunch, and slowly improve until, in 1917-1918, they've generally figured out what to do and how to avoid just ordering people to walk towards machine guns.

There were also a lot of shitty generals. But this is a big historiographic fight in British WWI history. Blackadder is shaped by the dominant historical understanding in the 1960s-1980s of "lions led by donkeys" which is no longer seen as totally accurate.