Sunday, November 11, 2018
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of November
In the year 1918, the leaders of the combatant nations of Europe decided to stop slaughtering each other. Four years earlier through a chain of events driven by arrogance, malice, stupidity and even vanity they began a war that their military leaders thought would be over quickly, with each thinking they would be on the winning side.
They were wrong, very wrong. The generals grievously underestimated the effects of the new improved methods of industrial killing and completely failed to alter their strategies and tactics. For the next four years the soldiery of France, Germany, Austria and England and Her Commonwealth Allies merrily slaughtered each other for God and Country. Russia, Turkey, The Balkan States, Italy and The United States joined in for part of the time.
Finally, after giving the world advanced military aircraft, poison gas weapons and U-Boat warfare,Germany and Austria reached a point where they could no longer continue the fight and requested an armistice. It took effect 100 years ago.And in the end precious little was achieved except to put off the second half of the war until 1939.
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