re: The Top 10 Deadliest Battles in U.S. Military History

Watch all quiet along the western front, about WW1. It’s understated on how bad it was, it basically ruined England as they lost so many skilled workers and professionals they never recovered, neither did France. We basically saved probably 10 million lives by getting involved, which was definitely the deciding factor. Otherwise they may have gone on for another decade.

You literally had these elite generals sitting in castles and vast estates far from fighting doing shite like if we launch an attack today we will lose 50,000 men but they will likely lose 60,000 so we are up 10k, major victory. This is the worse cannon fodder examples in history of the planet. Going over the top was basically a death wish, it amazing they continued to do it. At several times during the conflict the troops revolted, a think there was a huge troop rebellion by the French and there were some big ones by Germans too. The fighting troops even got together a few times to declare their own truces and may have come close to ending the war.
They ran out of poor people and were sending lawyers, doctors, engineers, college kids etc over the top at the end.

In all honesty, 26k killed in that mess was absolutely nothing and probably the lowest of any major fighting force. We actually emerged as a major world power. Of course, this diaster led directly to WW2, as we stupid Americans told them and the Germans warned but we were told to sit down and shut up as we had not suffered enough to sit at the table.

Those few dozen elite generals were indirectly and directly responsible for deaths of countless millions. I hope they have to count the bodies in hell a billion times over.

Solider rebellions in WW1