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Sir General Douglas Haig was given command of the BEF (British expeditionary force) in 1914 and quickly showed how incompetent his tactics were. ...
The tactics used by Haig at the time were defiantly outdated, as he believed attack was the only way to win a war. ... This showed his callousness as a general for his men as he sent many to their certain death.
He wasn’t a great tactician as this is shown in his tactics used in the Battle of The Somme where he made sure men walked towards the enemy in July 1916. The British Army had a total loss of 60000 men that day because of Haig’s tactics.
It wasn’t all General Haig’s fault of what happened on the Somme as the French were persistently asking the British to cause diversions, which Haig duly agreed on. ...
General Haig always had to comply with the French demands as he was under their command, so the blame for so many lives lost cannot wholly be blamed on Haig, but also French strategists.
Approximate Word count = 717
Approximate Pages = 2.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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