Was anything achieved by WW1?

[BSM1]

I don't think anything is achieved by war, war is for the unintelligent, no matter how good it sounds.

So how would you deal with the unintelligent who are dead set in taking your home, life, and/or freedom (such as the freedom to post on forums without restrictions)?

 

[Riverwolf]

King George III didnt exist according to my lessons. Infact to learn about WW1 and Britain's expenditure on the navy I had to choose an extra class age 14, for WW2 I needed an extra-extra class age 16. Although I went to a state school, Britain doesnt even have a unilateral education system. Scotland for example has its own parliament and education system. The state broadcaster BBC did run a programme recently on George III, but I dont see the correlation between that and WW1.

I know the thread is about WW1, but I was actually tangentially talking about the American Revolution, which was when King George III was on the throne. A brief look at Wikipedia shows me that it was George V who was in office during WW1, and George VI during WW2.

 

[Twilight Hue]

I've been reading a little about the Great War recently. My feeling is that it achieved nothing.
In your view, did WW1 achieve anything?

It paved a path for more efficient killing.

 

[Shad]

What about independence of former German and Russian territory when their empires broke apart. Poland for example.

 

[psychoslice]

The only thing achieved by WW1, is when it finished.

 

[Shuttlecraft]

Topic title: Was anything achieved by WW1?
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Militarily it was a bogged-down static mess so it had a great influence afterwards by making the planners on all sides determined that future wars would be fast and furious, led by armoured spearheads punching through the enemy lines; the so-called 'blitzkrieg concept..

 

[oldbadger]

Topic title: Was anything achieved by WW1?
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Militarily it was a bogged-down static mess so it had a great influence afterwards by making the planners on all sides determined that future wars would be fast and furious, led by armoured spearheads punching through the enemy lines; the so-called 'blitzkrieg concept..

........ apart from the WWII dunces who still believed in trenches, defence lines, 1st World War technology and utterly stupid 'Rank-by-class' hierarchies. No wonder we got our military bottoms kicked by the Germans during 1940.

Thank God for the English channel, 'cos not much else saved us in 1940.

 

[psychoslice]

So how would you deal with the unintelligent who are dead set in taking your home, life, and/or freedom (such as the freedom to post on forums without restrictions)?

Yes we are forced to protect ourselves, I realize that, but in the whole thing there is no intelligence.

 

[oldbadger]

The only thing achieved by WW1, is when it finished.

Buffoons playing at soldiers, throwing away thousands of young men's lives for nothing.

One example of the total idiocy of our WW1 military leaders was that they would not supply our pilots with parachutes, allegedly because they thought that they would not stick-it-out in a fight. Pilots were very hard to find and train, yet they still would not budge on this......

So something did come-out of WW1..... by WWII our pilots were issued with parachutes!

 

[oldbadger]

Yes we are forced to protect ourselves, I realize that, but in the whole thing there is no intelligence.

...... can you see much intelligence now?
....... How long do you give humanity to survive in its present global state?

..... All around... we boast and chant our intellectual ability and sophistication, whilst showing our utter stupidity.

 

[psychoslice]

...... can you see much intelligence now?
....... How long do you give humanity to survive in its present global state?

..... All around... we boast and chant our intellectual ability and sophistication, whilst showing our utter stupidity.

Yep, that's just how I feel about the whole stupid game of war.

 

[Shuttlecraft]

........ apart from the WWII dunces who still believed in trenches, defence lines, 1st World War technology and utterly stupid 'Rank-by-class' hierarchies. No wonder we got our military bottoms kicked by the Germans during 1940.
Thank God for the English channel, 'cos not much else saved us in 1940..

Yes, the French and Brits in 1940 knew about the Blitzkrieg idea and thought they'd be able to stop the German panzers with lines of anti-tank ditches, minefields, wire and anti-tank guns. It was a good idea on paper but Jerry proved them wrong by concentrating his overwhelming strength of panzers and stukas at just one small section of the line to punch through like a spearpoint ("schwerpunkt").
In 1941 and 42 he did it again in Russia and north africa and punched all the way to Stalingrad and Alamein.
By then, the Allies had learned how to deal with Blitzkrieg by hurling masses of AT-guns and tanks in its path to bleed it white.

PS- Best tank in 1940 was the Brit Matilda 2, it attacked the notorious SS "Deaths Head" Division in France and panicked them..
In his book 'Panzer Leader', German General Heinz Guderian writes on page 114-
"On the 21st of May a noteworthy event occurred to the north of us: English tanks attempted to break through in the direction of Paris.
At Arras they came up against the SS Division Totenkopf which had not been in action before and which showed signs of panic"