Iain Anderson

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@panthemanii @zephyros256 @_Tamazeal @FortIS_55 Why did Germany suddenly decide to tactically retreat from territory it occupied? Because of the casualties suffered and territory lost at the Somme and Verdun. Germany lost the war to "completely finished" Western Powers. Pretty embarassing for Germany.

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@panthemanii @zephyros256 @_Tamazeal @FortIS_55 From 1916 Germany lost ground continually during the Battle of the Somme, to the point they had to pull back to the Hindenberg Line, lost all ground taken at Verdun after failing to break the French etc.

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@LT_FM @Michigators @KyleKulinski Exactly how much time do you spend thinking and posting about gay sex? Quite a bit I'd wager.

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@panthemanii @zephyros256 @_Tamazeal @FortIS_55 Significantly better and more capable armies don't repeatedly lose battles.

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@panthemanii @zephyros256 @_Tamazeal @FortIS_55 Wars aren't won by K/D ratio. One would broadly expect fewer casualties among a force predominantly defending. Even so, German casualties were also terrible.

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@panthemanii @zephyros256 @_Tamazeal @FortIS_55 Yes, the Western Front was a hard fought theatre throughout the war. The Entente played things smarter in the Hundred Days Offensives than the Germans did in the Spring Offensive, using methodical, set-piece combined arms offensives, not rushing forward after breaking through.

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@panthemanii @zephyros256 @_Tamazeal @FortIS_55 To the extent the German Spring Offensives were themselves successful was because they hit a load understrength divisions exhausted from earlier allied offensives in the year prior. Germany ultimately lost both in offence and defence in 1918.

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@panthemanii @zephyros256 @_Tamazeal @FortIS_55 Infantry tactics, artillery coordination and aerial reconnaissance in 1914 were rudimentary to say the least. By your logic, Napoleon's Grande Armée could beat WWI armies, since he too had mastered combined arms warfare.

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@panthemanii @zephyros256 @_Tamazeal @FortIS_55 By the end of the war, British and French forces were smashing well-prepared German defences with accurate hurricane bombardments directed by aerial reconnaisance, followed by tank-supported infantry assaults using sophisticated squad tactics. Leagues ahead of 1914 combat.

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@panthemanii @zephyros256 @_Tamazeal @FortIS_55 Combined with what? While Germany had an advantage in machine guns and heavy artillery over the Entente forces in 1914, by the last year of the war all sides on the Western Front were playing a completely different ball game.

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@_Tamazeal @FortIS_55 "Some" is underselling it, to put it mildly. Knowing how to fight trench warfare is irrelevant, as much of 1914 and 1918 was mobile warfare. The French Army of 1918 were miles ahead in combined arms warfare, had thousands of tanks, aircraft and experienced heavy gun batteries.

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@kingoftgeweirdo @DaveFinchMMA @Clint_Davey1 So has the US. Using this map's logic, the United States as we now know it was formed in 1959. It's a silly way of reckoning a country's age.

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@primarily_prog I was initially very disappointed with this album, but over the years I've really come to appreciate it as a lovely, soothing ambient record.

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@aaaaaaa72078063 @tanzebiparwa @Dispropoganda Arguably it started it 1937, when the Condor Legion bombed Guernica.

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@Mcdona47080Ross @FplStavLasso Everton and Forest broke PSR, which is the offence that usually results in a ppints deduction. Had they been guilty of failure to report payments, while being PSR compliant, they would probably have received a fine and/or transfer ban.

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@PrizrakLuganska @JasonRees7 @BinneyLuke Sounds like someone's upset that the UK doesn't want to get dragged into another stupid war in West Asia.

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@PrizrakLuganska @JasonRees7 @BinneyLuke What do you think the "Joint" bit in "Joint Strike Fighter" means? Thr aiecraft was funded and manufactured in cooperation with a number of nations. And the UK wasn't and isn't an enemy of the United States.

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@craigsmith53 @SamCKx They do if they initially suspect terrorism, then quickly realise it's not terrorism. Streets have been cleared over an unattended bag before now.

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@a_lost_diamond @LiFMo_art It's an adaptation of a Garfield parody of these kinds of weepy viral posts for years ago.

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@GoodParentRWest I'm not a big fan of the direction the games took from Resident Evil 4 onwards and I quite enjoyed the new film. It has some of the same problems I had with Barbarian and Weapons, but on the whole it captured the Resident Evil very well.