What are we fighting for? And why not on same side?
On June 24, 1916 the Battle of the Somme began with a British artillery barrage. On Nov. 18, 1916 the English commander called an end to the engagement.
The butcher’s bill was 1,070,000 dead or wounded British, French and German soldiers.
And it changed nothing; not the lines of battle, not the overarching strategy, not public support, and especially not the tactics. Nothing was changed to lessen the slaughter. (The 1918 “Spring Offensive” registered 1,539,715 total casualties.)
The Great War’s aftermath was 40 million dead and a screwed-up peace, setting the stage for the still-raging conflict in the mid-East and a Second World War that left 54 million dead.
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/burke-what-are-we-fighting-for-and-why-not-on-same-side/
