IGCSE History: World War I – Sir Douglas Haig

IGCSE History: World War I – Sir Douglas Haig

Sir Douglas Haig:

Alternatively called the Somme Butcher.

Strategies:

Believed in the policy of attrition.
Tactics were clumsy, costly in resources.
Believed that defense could not bring victory.
Haig's method was the best possible considering that he did not have hindsight or anything else to rely on.
His tactics prepared the route to Allied victory.
Haig's methods at the Somme achieved:

Saving the fortified town of Verdun.
Taking the pressure off the overstretched French army at Passchendaele.

Killing some of Germany's best troops.
His tactics prepared the route to Allied victory.