British army at war

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6. “The incompetence of the commanders of the British Army were responsible for the death of his friends”. I agree with this statement, although only to a certain extent, as it is clearly evident from both my own knowledge and also the twelve sources I am using for this topic, that there are many different opinions that can be expressed throughout the sources and from my own knowledge, most of it is all depending on what side the person was on – German, or English, also it depends what park they were playing in the war (if any at all), i.e. if they were just a journalist of if they were actually involved in the war as a soldier or a person behind the scenes.

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        From my own point of view, and my own knowledge, I first of all say that from what I know about General Haig, one of the main commanders of the British Army, in general, is that he was said to have had no real knowledge of the way in which he should command, had no discipline over the soldiers, but worst of all, he did not care much about the tactics of attacking at all, as he was even once reported of saying he, “just wanted his team to win”, this was also noted by many soldiers and journalists because ...

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