Top 10 Misconceptions about World War I
1. Russia was the second-grade military power in World War 1
Not True, Russia may have left the war after the revolution and the Great Retreat, and disasters like the Battle of Tannenburg and Battle of Lodz don't make exactly make the Russian Military Record shine, but the Russian Army was anything but a pushover. At this time 100 Years ago. they were just romping around Eastern Anatolia and the Brusilov Offensive and the Tactics they have played came a seriously close to knocking Austria out of the war or even collapsing the Austro-Hungarian Empire it definitely broke the back of their army and is certainly a force to be an army. The enormous growth and the modernization of the Russian military industry in 1916 also had nothing to do with it.
2. Everything was being said about the War
No, there were a lot of European Powers testing out this warfare like Edith Cavell was spying for Britain. Or that Falkenhayn's claim that the Battle of Verdun was to bleed France to its death is quite likely intervention in fact Files are being declassified now, even 100 Years after the war. Who knows what we're going to find out.
3. The Germans were the Bad Guys
Was it Germany's fault when the house of cards came crashing down? That war escalated into the horror that it did? Not so much more than anybody else in Europe who had all the outdated ideas about the necessity of the war and how to pursue it. And sure, you have the incident about the Rape of Belgium, but atrocities were committed by all sides; like the Armenian Genocide which the Turkish Government denied it from existing, and the massacres committed by the Russians in East Prussia in 1914.
4. The Skies is a Gentlemen's War
The Flying Aces like The Red Baron and Billy Bishop we're like the Main shows in the War, gliding above the carnage, and fighting plane to plane. Except not so much they were fighting machine guns, and they were often flying in formations by the second half of the entire war when the average life expectancy of the pilots could be measured in hours. And never forget, the perfect kill happened when the enemy never saw you coming.
5. World War 1 was a European War and not a World War
Not true, it had its origins in Europe and there was a lot of fighting done in Europe. But once the Ottoman Empire joined we should have a clue about how it would spread, Even before that Japan fought against the German Empire, the United States and Brazilian Empire would eventually join the War, there were battles in the South Pacific and South Atlantic, soldiers from every continent would fight, and there would be fights everywhere in Africa, mainly by colonial overlords, but there were fronts in Persia, Mesopotamia, Libya, and even in the borders of India it is a World War.
6. The War was only fought in Trenches
The Trenches were the Symbol of World War I, and they appeared on pretty much every front, the vast trench networks were common on the Western Front. In the deserts or the huge open spaces of the Eastern Front, Cavalry played a big role and huge trench systems would've been often impossible to maintain.
7. Tactics in the War did NOT change
It's easy to think that just looking at the week-by-week carnage, but if you looked at the tactics in 1914 and 1918, it would be hard to find the real similarities. The statement across the various fronts pretty much forced tactical innovations the war saw the advent of mechanized mobile warfare and certainly the techniques Hitler's Wehrmacht used at the beginning of world war II grew out of those at the end of World War I.
8. Navies didn't do any real plays on World War 1
Well, the biggest battle in naval history was the Battle of Jutland happened during the First World War and Britain's blockade of Germany was a big role in starving Germany. There were countless naval skirmishes around the world. Germany tried to turn the tide of the war using unrestricted U-boat warfare, and if you learned in the Mediterranean, the major powers were using their navies to block each other.
9. The German Army wasn't thwarted in World War 1
Yeah, they were they endured far longer than anyone could have imagined, and their final offensives in 1918 were real forces to be recognized, but the state of the enemy by the summer of 1918 was catastrophic in terms of Morale and Supplies. And the state of their allies was worse.
10. World War I was mainly fought on the Western Front
There was the Eastern Front, Romanian Front, Serbian Front, Italian Front, and other fronts that I can't show a lot of them bc it's quite long.
The Western Front was but a fraction, and not a big of one, of the total of the First World War.
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