VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time ]
Subject: Butcher Haig ?


Author:
Johan Ryheul
[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]
Date Posted: 10:13:33 07/08/02 Mon

Hi,

If you look at Haig's love for the Flanders front, and the desastrous results the men scored, one should start doubting if he was nothing else but a political opportunist like Adm. Keyes, that had made it to the top thanks to his political friends, not due to his military abilities.
What other CO would get it in his head that he could launch a new offensive (3rd Ypres) and be able to make it in one big movement to the Belgian coast in order to take the harbours of Zeebrugge and Oostende, used by the Germans for the U-boat war and sinking 2554 merchant ships in WW I from these. You have to be more than an idiot if you saw that all the former offensives just won a few miles in the best case. Or do any of you have other opinions ?
Yes I want to make some people angry, to have a good start with the Forum ;-)

Best from Johan

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:
Subject Author Date
Re: Butcher Haig ?Joeseph McCarthy10:54:37 07/08/02 Mon


Post a message:
This forum requires an account to post.
[ Create Account ]
[ Login ]
[ Contact Forum Admin ]


Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.