Re: The role played by non-Europeans in the Great War

nightjar <cpb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

> A nice sound-bite, but even if were true, you wouldn't get people doing
that 
> without a lot of training in good discipline. I have a military training

> manual from 1941 and, apart from the sections on tank hunting and the
Bren 
> gun, it wouldn't have been much different from those in use in the Great

> War. It is about A5 size and 1/2 inch thick, set in close type. Even
digging 
> a trench has to be done in a specific order, with the spoil being built 
> carefully into a parapet and a parados.
> 
> Colin Bignell 

Sorry, I used to work at the Army Staff College and if you think there was
any 
parity in training or tactics between the first and the second, you are in

need of some lessons in history.
The Aussies suffered 64% casualties, with 60k killed, the French 75% and 
nearly ten million killed in a very short range series of conflicts.

Many of the troops in the last two years had less than three weeks
training 
and the idea of well trained troops came out of the war.

JJ