re: What would be the worst war to fight in in history?

World War I is definitely not a conflict I would have wanted any part of. Life in the trenches was straight arse and when the battles got underway, the combat was just brutal. Machine guns, barbed wire, constant artillery fire, poison gas. I can't imagine what that must have been like. Combine that with the mud, the rats, and the other elements and what you come up with is probably the shittiest of shite.

Then you have battles like Verdun, waged mostly to bleed the French Army dry and force their capitulation. Actually capturing Verdun was never an objective of the German Army. They merely wanted to draw as many French into the Verdun sector so they could kill as many as possible. A real-life meat grinder.

Just a terrible, terrible conflict. As far as U.S. history goes when it comes to the First World War, the bloodiest battle in American history remains the Battle of the Argonne Forest. Waged in 1918, we lost over 26,000 men killed and nearly 96,000 wounded in that battle.