That's a stupid position...
War is too serious a matter to be left only to military people
(Clemenceau, French stateman, 1914...)

Yeah, the French politicians really helped out at Verdun. If not for the idiot
French politicians, Petain would have been allowed to fall back to the west
side of the Meuse, or even further. The French would have given ground,
including the town of Verdun, but the casulties inflicted on the Germans would
have been much greater and the French much less. After the German advance ran
out steam (meaning men), the French could *then* have counter attacked. Instead
the French politicians pressured military to hold the ground at all cost. That
"all cost" was nearly 100,000 French KIA. Doesn't sound like the politicians
involvement at Verdun was very productive......


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"