>Not a massacre. If I'm dug in and you're stupid enough to
>charge my position, the onus is on you. mbs
>
>> The horrors of mechanized warfare confuse things. E.g., how would you
> > categorize the Battle of the Somme, where wave on wave of UK
> > soldiers walked into German machine gun fire, resulting in 35,494 British
> > seriously wounded and 19,240 dead in a single day -- a massacre or ritual
>suicide?
Did that charge make any kind of ruthless sense? What were the generals who ordered it thinking?
Doug