- Haig remained in his post and from March 1918 succeeded in stopping the last German offensive of the war (March-July 1918), before showing perhaps his best leadership in the victorious Allied assault from August onwards.
- Haig’s failures were very much to do with the pressure placed by the French for constant relief on the Western Front, on the Somme in 1916 and at Passchendaele in 1917.
- The Somme offensive of July-November 1916, in which Allied predominantly British forces ultimately succeeded in throwing back the German Army on the Somme, led by Field Marshall Haig.
- Haig proposed good plans for example: Haig believed that it was possible, actually, to break through the enemy's trenches and to sweep forward into open country. To do this, he must attack on a wide front (which meant spreading his bombardment), so that in the center of his attack his infantry and cavalry would be free from flanking fire from the unattacked parts of the enemy line. If Haig's scheme worked, he would have solved the problem at the Western Front. Trench warfare and stalemate would have ended.
- In the final 100 days of the Great War the British army engaged, and defeated, 99 of the 197 German Divisions in the West. The British captured 188700 prisoners, almost 50% of the total taken by all the allied armies in France in this period.
The scale of Haig's victories moved the Allied Generalissimo, Marshall Foch, to write;
Never at any time in history has the British Army achieved greater results in attack than in this unbroken offensive...The victory was indeed complete, thanks to the Commanders of the Armies, Corps and Divisions and above all to the unselfishness, to the wise, loyal and energetic policy of their Commander-in-Chief, who made easy a great combination and sanctioned a prolonged gigantic effort.
- In France, Haig, who took command of the BEF in late 1915, had little or no room for maneuver because of the continuous front line and he had to deal with the inherent difficulties of coalition warfare. Yet the majority of his critics has simply ignored Haig’s most obvious achievements in the face of these difficulties.
- His army was well supplied in the field, his wounded swiftly evacuated and well cared for. He presided over the integration of entirely new weapons technologies, chemical, aerial and armoured, into the British Army tactical system. Above all Haig maintained the faith and loyalty of his subordinates; "the figure of Haig looms ever larger as that of the man who foresaw more accurately than most, whom endured longer than most and who inspired most confidence amongst his fellows," wrote his biographer, Duff Cooper.
- Much of the assault on Haig's reputation is based on half-truths and distortion. Those who criticize him for being out of touch with conditions at the front, or unable to respond quickly to changing circumstances, overlook the problem of battlefield communications that faced all commanders of the First World War
- Haig never intended that his cavalry "charge" into battle. British cavalry was trained to fight both mounted and dismounted and made many experiments in co-operating with other arms, infantry, tanks and even aircraft. Haig encouraged such experiments and he has been credited with fostering the concept of "an all-arms strike force which clearly pointed the way to the future of mobile warfare”.
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There were many small victories such as Poziers on the 23rd of July and the victory of capturing fortress at Beaumont in November the 1st, these were some of the victories for the commander.
- Haig was a traditional commander and wasn’t used to modern warfare, but Haig tried his best in every situation until he succeeded.
- He was Awarded many Civic and Academic honors after the war.
- Haig’s Diaries show that he was very much preoccupied with the logistics of dealing with the dead and wounded.
- Haig was very experimental with various tactics for example the creeping barrage, mining tunnels which led to the final breakthrough.
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Von Moltke because he ruined the Schlieffen Plan and didn’t plan in advance causing errors and therefore can be blamed for the stalemate.