for people who want to know more, Gary Sheffield's lectures on youtube on excellent ways to learn about Haig's strengths and weaknesses as a commander

@marinanguish9928

Жыл бұрын

His lectures are great

The interviewer stated that 400,000 British soldiers died on the Somme. Wrong! C94,000 died. According to Gordon Corrigan c74 percent came out of the battle uninjured.

Hig was a serious commander operating in unimaginable circumstances navigating an entirely new kind of warfare as it was being invented second by second before him, prior to the technology to cope with the military demands existing. And, in the end, he won.

@CuckFinn

10 ай бұрын

He didn’t win tho.

@anthonyeaton5153

4 ай бұрын

@@CuckFinnWho won the war? France and Britain and Haig was the CinC.

@puffin51

2 ай бұрын

@@anthonyeaton5153 France and Britain won, but Haig didn't. He was never CinC, and was removed from direct control of battle in March 1918, after three years of attritional war studded with blunders, such as his failure to follow up on the one occasion when a breakthrough was possible, at Cambrai. The "Hundred Days" was planned and fought entirely by others, and it was that campaign that broke the German army, not, as Haig falsely claimed, the slaughters of 1916 and 1917. Haig was at best a determined plodder, and Third Ypres was a hideous demonstration of how disastrous that can be.

The Somme took the pressure off the French at Verdun. Germany had to fight both battles plus the losses they took in the East. They put out peace feelers to Wilson but Wilson did not manage to set up a peace conference.

The donkeys are the ones who looked at him as he was one

@Baldwin-iv445

Жыл бұрын

Amen brother!

Haig was like Churchill the man for the times he beat the Germans as did Churchill it's good that the British Empire had two proud Scots and English in charge at these dire times 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@Lesboi

Жыл бұрын

Lmao😂

1st

There is no practical difference between Haig and Luigi Cadorna. We rightly condemn the fool that was the latter, it is right to do the same for the former.

@t.wcharles2171

5 ай бұрын

There is a difference between Cadorna and Haig. Haig was adaptable, Cadorna was not.

1st Comment

WTF: Donkeys admiring a Donkey with an appropriate Edwardian deference ?. Or are they just having a good laugh at the gullible.

Unconvincing..

A military clerk, collecting a handsome pension riding a fine new horse passing houses of men still buried in the mud of the Somme.

An astonishing assessment of Haig who was truly a butcher. Class ridden and with no empathy for anyone other than those of his own class. A disgrace to our country and I reject any attempt to eulogise him. Damn Haig in whose hands the worst slaughter of British men has ever occurred to no effect whatsoever

@michaelwright160

Ай бұрын

to no effect whatever except that of decisive and complete victory over the strongest enemy they ever faced. When I read @johnarmstrong3782's comment I am afraid I was reminded of Aneurin Bevan's remark "That was not an argument. That was a spasm"

A lion??? Anything but.

Boring!

@jacobprice2579

Жыл бұрын

So don’t watch

Haig should have faced war crimes.. It's absolutely amazing how British history can turn a total incompetent. Into some kind of HERO...... DISGUSTING

@williamthebonquerer9181

7 ай бұрын

He literally won the war in 1918.

@daniellewis3270

6 ай бұрын

Using nineteenth century tactics in a twentieth century war, totally incompetent. Saying that he’d do well in the current russian army.

@guyharrison5773

14 күн бұрын

For what?

@guyharrison5773

14 күн бұрын

​@@daniellewis3270 which "19th century tactics" did he use?