[CaptainCrunch]

The biggest failure of history teaching is the application of late 20th early 21st century rules and concepts to early 20th century historic events.

Instead of trying to understand the decisions made then based on the intelligence information and values then, we're literally monday morning quarterbacking with a flawed model.

It would be like watching the 1889 world series and then stating that Randy Johnson would totally p'wn major league baseball back then .

Magnum, your really wrong, based on the relationship with the commonwealth back then, the military structures and tables back then, and the way that the Canadian government was viewed in its relationship withing the British commonwealth, allowing the Canadian Expeditionary Force to fight as one component lead for the most part by Canadian Officers and Senior NCO as a all Canadian contingent was a huge step towards creating a national entity seperate from the Commonwealth, and went a long ways towards the establishment of the Statute of Westminsiter.

You might call WW1 a useless war, but based around the alliances back then, the intelligence that they were receiving and the decision making processes at the time and the people in power. Plus the whole colony system, WW1 was very much scene as a crucial war for the Commonwealth.