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What is your opinion on the clique-ness of the French Military in the pre WW1 era and the so-called Cult of Offense?

You're in "Military History of Europe until 1914".
The Cult of the Offensive existed before WWI.
I suppose though you guys havent even reached the Franco-Prussian war yet.

Well what it works out to is this:
The Cult of the offensive is the belief in the Elan of the soldier to charge forward and come to grips with the enemy via bayonnett.
It is the courage and tenacity of the individual soldier that wins wars, accompanied by the bayonnet.

The cliquenesss of the French Military spawned this, as the officers corps became divided into little groups who favored certain ideas, in a similar fasion to the cliques that spring up in idea forums in the internet. The most powerful of these Cliques is the one that favored the Offensive bayonnet charge.

Meanwhile on the otherside of the Ardennes, the Germans were focusing on a decentralized command structure and an infantry that was well provisioned with artillery and other essential weapons to quickly neutralize an enemy's will to fight.

Meanwhile, the British, content in their superiority over all, shrunk their profesional army to the point that they believed the deciding battle in any continental war would be six british divisions.
About the only real thing that they had learn from their blunders in the Boer War was that its harder to hit someone wearing Khaki than Red.

This disgusting little scenario, where the French thought Bayonnets and Elan were pimp, the Germans were focusing on firepower over manpower, and the ego of the brits came about due to the dismissal of Bismark as the Prime Minister of Germany. When he was gone, the German-Russian alliance he had built fell apart and was replaced by a Franco-russian alliance. In addition, French negotiators were working their contacts hard to get quite a few more "Secret" treaties so that they could get as many people as possible to gang-rape Germany in the event of a war with them.

Apparantly my roommate is 'depressed' because I don't ask him about his life everyday and how things are going. It supposedly has been going on for several weeks, and despite the first time he came to me about this, and i told him to tell me if this happens again, it's happened again. Except now the room coordinator is wanting me to move out of my room.

More importantly, apparantly when someone says 'I'm fine', when I ask how's it going, it means quite the opposite. Gah..

Nelo, do I need to come up there and put boot to emo a** in the Empire's name?