[Oesten]

I disagree with the comments about WWI generals. These guys had to cope with the most radical and rapid technological change in warfare in all history.

Within a few short years, WWI brought the following new technologies into battle: the dreadnaught battleship, the aeroplane, the submarine, the aircraft carrier, the mine, quick-firing artillery with bombardments on a scale never before imagined, AA guns, poison gas, the tank, and wireless (radio) communications.

The generals and admirals of the age, brought up in the Victorian era in which army officers still learned Napoleonic tactics and naval officers studies Nelson's victories, did amazingly well to integrate all this new technology into their campaigns. If the generals and admirals had been as stuck and rigid in their thinking as is popularly believed, there would have been no tanks, no submarines and no aircraft carriers as those projects would have been shelved as soon as they were proposed.


Nearly all technology in WWII was merely developments of WWI-era inventions. (obviously excluding radar and the atomic bomb.)

[Deamon]