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"Dennis, Andrew" wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> >The first World War was the first time there was
> > highly organized state propaganda.
>
> Inaccurate. Kitchener organised the first serious news control in the
> Sudan and the Boer Wars, and there had been news management as far back
> as the Crimea.
>
> >The British had
> > a Ministry of Information, and they really needed
> > it because they had to get the U.S. into the war
> > or else they were in bad trouble.
>
> In the second world war, certainly. In the first lot, by the time the
> US came in, we'd confined the German fleet to its home ports (battle of
> Jutland), held the germans to their lines for the best part of three
> years, and had them on the cusp of the three months of continuous German
> retreat that brought about the 1918 armistice. Total US involvement in
> World War I was somewhere less than 100,000 (ie., about a week's
> casualties for the British and French during an offensive). All the US
> forces in WWI did was balance up the Russian capitulation.
>
Measuring the effectiveness of an army by how many casualties it had is
not very accurate. More importantly is the strength of that army, its
potential, how many casualties it inflicts, and how much territory it
takes. Before the US came into the war there was a basic stalemate. With
the surrender of the Russians the balance would have shifted towards the
Germans. The Eastern front was large and took a considerable number of
German combatants out of the western front. Even with the addition of
the US fighting forces, Germany had not been invaded when it
surrendered. However, it had become obvious to the German leadership
that with the men and supplies now coming (and soon to come) from the
US, there was no way the war could have been won. Previous to the US
entry, it was still possible for the German leadership to believe that a
favorable negotiated settlement was still possible with an exhausted enemy.
Howard Davis
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