While visiting the states, I decided to watch a documentary about world war II on the History channel in my hotel room. Historical revisionism. What a load of rubbish.
It was so awful I could not finish watching it. I went down to bar in the hotel lobby to have a drink and I casually mentioned the the gross American bias of the documentary to my bartender. Some other patrons overheard the complaint and decided to defend the claims made by the documentary about Montgomery, verbally degrading the man in a most disrespectful fashion. The conversation became heated and as I quickly found myself outnumbered, I bowed out as gracefully as I could and retired to my room.
I just discovered that Americans believe Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery was a bad commander.
You do realize that the only reason you believe this is due to the fact that American generals used him as a scapegoat to conceal their own incompetence, right?
Elijah Roberts
So, wait. You watched something on the history channel, and then went to the hotel bar and the random patrons around there were wall familiar with the claims made in some TV documentary, and willing to argue with a stranger over it?
Look dude, I know people make up stories on a Jamaican turtle herding forum, but can't you at least TRY to make a plausible one? And this is coming from a burger who thinks that Monty was a pretty good general, all things considered.
Owen Roberts
I didn't say they were familiar with the documentary. I said they were familiar with the claims made by the documentary.
Kayden Davis
Most commanders are done injustice in the popular conception for various reasons. Very few people know that Gallipoli was largely a French plan, for instance. The British had wanted to attack Alexandretta and cleave Turkey in two, France refused because they didn't want to expose Syria to the British.
Jackson Martinez
Sertorius.
Gabriel Howard
Bait.
Adrian Miller
I think Haig gets a bad rep. Granted, I certainly do not want to accuse him of strategic brilliance, but the criticism levelled against him by armchair generals is flat out unfair.
With the benefit of hindsight it can be difficult to appreciate just how unprepared the generals of Europe were for WW1. War had changed so much that all the strategy, all the tactics they had been raised on was simply not working. They had to throw out the manuals and invent a completely new way of fighting from scratch. In battlefield conditions, with the Germans 100km from Paris. One fuck up, and that's it. The front folds, the Germans roll through, and the war is over. This is the situation in which Haig had to figure out how this war could be fought.
And he found a way. With creeping artillery barrages and sustained offensives he could make the Germans bleed as much as he did. Half a million allies fell in the Somme, but so did half a million Krauts. It was not elegant, and it was not pretty, but at these odds Haig would win and the Germans would lose. So he stuck to it. He did not risk abandoning a method that worked poorly for a method that might not work at all and lose him the war.
Leo Taylor
This is common knowledge now, only retards hate on Haig.
Connor Scott
>only retards
Well, I am talking to Veeky Forums.
Oliver Rodriguez
He's more unknown than underrated. Everyone who's heard of him knows he was a good commander.
