RetroWARTHINK 028: Canadians Save WW1 for the Allies--Teacher, Student of Operational Art, General Curried LIE-belled by Enviers

 LIE-BEL is a SERIOUS CRIME AGAINST REAL HEROES: Canadian General Currie Saved Us in WW1, Wrongly Hated Afterwards

BBC TIMELINE

Canadian Remarkable War Efforts in WW1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uIRJxc5A-w

TECHNOTACTICAL: Notice the German "pill boxes"--semi-circular, grass-camouflaged, reinforced concrete machine gun positions reacting to Curries' Vimy Ridge success focusing in on destroying these crew--served, high volume of firepower weapons

GEOPOLITICAL: General Currie and others realized the Armistice didn't decisively defeat German Militarism and in 25x years they would have to fight the war--again.

I have to tell you; I CANNOT TOLERATE ONE MORE OUNCE OF USMC LYING BS--BE IT ABOUT WW1 where they didn't do jack-shit and in WW2 where the vast majority of the fighting & dying was done by the U.S. ARMY. The U.S. Army was the 1st to Fight in WW2--be it the Doolittle Raid or New Guinea--long before any gyrenes landed on Guadalcanal. That anyone would be willing and actually lie and take away costly war triumphs for themselves AT THAT TIME (!) is beyond despicable. I think the USMC should be DISBANDED because their lies never cease.

STFU, constantly lying marines.

This is why I will never capitalize your organizational name again. The recent empty boast that current Commandant General Berger has stood up to the Illuminati globalists just to falsely make the USMC undeservedly look good is intolerable.

STFU already. 

LIE-BULLshit is not new..that Amerikans are dumbshits and don't care about the TRUTH invalidates their boasts about wanting "JUSTice" about any fucking thing. Be it malcontent nihilist-hedonist blacks with their 1619 grift or who killed JFK? RFK? and MLK?

The fucking CIA murdered JFK, RFK, and MLK; so call on the CIA TO BE DISBANDED for "JUSTICE"--not willing to say this because the Company is Illuminati scum that murders people? These are the actions of coward-pussies. STFU.

Watching how the Canadians led by General Currie with quiet optimism and tactical combined-arms innovation saved the entire Allied war effort, the constant USMC boasts about a minor battle must be silenced by the weight of the far greater context of what the CANADIAN ARMY did for YEARS in WW1.  

STFU, gyrenes. YOU were not there. No German in any war ever called the few marines they encountered "devil" anything.  The USMC did not even fight ANY Germans in WW2. Only the Japanese as a SMALL part of the U.S. ARMY effort there--AFTER the latter got there 1st. Any gyrenes jumping into Normandy on D-Day?

No.

Afterwards?

No.

The reader should ascertain the ETO against high technology German Nazis in WW2 realities....

After General Currie's amazing WW1 exploits, some asswipe in Canada LIE-BULL(shit) ed him and his reputation was forever smeared. Same as it is with ZERO ATTENTION SPAN NORMIE DUMBSHITS TODAY. Note the newspapers get to lie and libel anyone they want at will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Currie

In June 1927, the city of Mons erected a plaque commemorating its liberation by the Canadian Corps nine years earlier; when this event was reported in Canadian newspapers, Currie's enemies took the opportunity to again question the necessity of the final day of fighting. A front-page editorial published on 13 June 1927 by the Hughes-friendly Port Hope Evening Guide argued that Currie was either negligent or deliberate in wasting the lives of Soldiers under his command in taking Mons on the final day of the war.[68][69][70] The newspaper had only a small local circulation, and Currie's friends advised him against pursuing the matter.[70] However, Currie was unwilling to let the matter go,[70] and sued the newspaper for libel, seeking $50,000 ($753,000 today) in damages.[71] The trial in April 1928 was front-page news across Canada.[72] On the stand, Currie testified that he had been under orders from Allied Supreme Commander Ferdinand Foch to pursue German forces; to do otherwise would have been treason.[73] Many of Currie's senior officers testified that Currie urged them to advance with caution, avoiding unnecessary casualties.[74] At the end of the trial, the jury returned a verdict after four hours, finding the newspaper guilty of libel but awarding Currie only $500 ($7,500 today) in damages, plus costs.[75][76]

Although Currie was awarded only a small portion of the value sought, newspapers across Canada referred to the result as a victory for him.[72] The trial helped to restore Currie's reputation; however the stress took a toll on his health.[68] Currie was subsequently elected Dominion president of the Canadian Legion of the British Empire Service League in 1928.[77] However he suffered a stroke the following year and his ill health obliged him to resign, whereupon he was bestowed with the honorary title of Grand President.[77][78]

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This is why if we are going to save Amerika and restore us back into a decent country, there must be PUNISHMENT CONSEQUENCES FOR PUBLICLY LYING--like HOAXING...like what Biden/Harris did claiming they were somehow the "select" for a month when no official election winner was announced--a FELONY CRIME breaking USC Title 18, Section 1038, punishable by life in prison and DISQUALIFICATION from holding ANY USG office.

If the USMC fangirl thinks he's soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tougher-than-thou, let's see him Citizen's Arrest Biden and/or Harris for the election steal and/or indisputable hoaxing.

Didn't think so.

General Currie: Warrior-Teacher (Like U.S. General Chamberlain) Self-Actualizer, Intellectual Curiosity about War; Quest for Military Excellence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Currie

General Sir Arthur William Currie, GCMG, KCB (5 December 1875 – 30 November 1933) was a senior officer of the Canadian Army who fought during World War I. He had the unique distinction of starting his military career on the very bottom rung as a pre-war militia gunner before rising through the ranks to become the first Canadian commander of the Canadian Corps. Currie's success was based on his ability to rapidly adapt brigade tactics to the exigencies of trench warfare, using set piece operations and bite-and-hold tactics. He is generally considered to be among the most capable commanders of the Western Front, and one of the finest commanders in Canadian military history.

Currie began his military career in 1897 as a part-time Soldier in the Canadian militia while making his living as a teacher and later as an insurance salesman and real estate speculator. Currie rose quickly through the ranks: commissioned as an officer in 1900, promoted to captain in 1901, then major in 1906 and became an artillery regimental commander in 1909. In 1913, Currie accepted the command of the newly created 50th Regiment Gordon Highlanders of Canada.

When the First World War broke out Canadian Minister of Militia Sam Hughes appointed Currie as commander of the 2nd Canadian Brigade. Following the Second Battle of Ypres Currie was promoted to major-general and commander of the 1st Canadian Division. Following the Battle of Vimy Ridge, Canadian Corps commander Julian Byng was promoted to general and Currie, the 1st Canadian Division commander, was promoted to lieutenant-general and assumed command of the Canadian Corps. Upon returning to Canada, Currie was promoted to general and was made Inspector-General of the Canadian Army. Although he had only a high school diploma, Currie became the principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University in 1920, holding this post until his death in 1933.

Currie took on his role as militia officer seriously.[10] He attended every available course offered by the British Army Contingent at Work Point Barracks in Esquimalt, often ordered military text books from London and was found on the shooting range every Saturday.[8][4] He was a keen marksman and was elected president of the British Columbia Rifle Association in 1905.[9] Currie was promoted to captain in November 1901, and then to major in 1906.[8][10] By September 1909, he had risen to the rank of lieutenant colonel, commanding the 5th Regiment.[11] 

The Canadian 1st Division spent the winter of 1914–15 training in England, and were sent to France in February 1915. After a period of indoctrination in the realities of trench warfare, they took control of a section of trench in the Ypres Salient on 17 April 1915. Only five days later, the Germans used poison gas for the first time on the Western Front.[24] French colonial troops on the Canadians' left flank broke, leaving a 7-kilometre (4.3 mi) long hole in the Allied line.[25] In the chaos that followed, Currie proved his worth as a leader by assessing the situation, and coolly issuing commands from his brigade headquarters even as it was gassed and then destroyed by fire. Currie cobbled together a fluid defence and counterattacked. At one point, he personally went back to the rear to try to convince two regiments of British reinforcements to move forward.[26] After several days of fierce fighting, Allied counterattacks re-established a stable defensive line, denying the Germans a breakthrough.

Although the Canadians did not take part in the infamous Anglo-French offensive on the Somme on 1 July 1916, they did eventually move into the line in the fall to aid the slow crawl forward. Currie proved himself to be the master of the set-piece assault, designed to take limited objectives and then hold on in the face of inevitable German counterattacks. It was at this time that Currie lost favour with former friends Sam and Garnet Hughes. Sam Hughes wanted Garnet promoted to command of a division, but Currie, having seen Garnet in action at the Second Battle of Ypres, believed Garnet to be an incompetent officer, and refused. Currie's reputation was on the rise, and Hughes did not have the necessary leverage to force Currie to comply.

By late 1916, the four Canadian divisions were in France, gathered together as the Canadian Corps under the command of Sir Julian Byng. The British High Command informed Byng that the Canadians would have a central role in the upcoming Battle of Arras by attacking Vimy Ridge, 8 km (5.0 mi) northeast of Arras on the western edge of the Douai Plains.[30] Byng ordered Currie to study the Battle of the Somme and advise what lessons could be taken and applied. Currie was also among a set of officers who attended a series of lectures hosted by the French Army regarding their experiences during the Battle of Verdun.[30] Currie not only questioned senior French officers but also sought out junior officers and asked the same questions, carefully noting the discrepancies between the senior officers' beliefs and the junior officers' experiences.[31] On 20 January 1917, Currie began a series of well-received lectures to Corps and divisional headquarters based on his research.[32] In response to the Verdun visit, organizational changes were made to the platoon structure within the infantry battalions that would later become Corps-wide changes.[33] In his report, Currie evaluated not only the French tactics--but also what the Canadians had done wrong in the fighting around Pozières in 1916.[33] Currie summarized the primary factors behind successful French offensive operations as: careful staff work, thorough artillery preparation and support, the element of surprise, and a high state of training in the infantry units detailed for the assault.[33]

Currie, in command of the 1st Canadian Division, was responsible for the broad southern sector of the Canadian Corps advance and expected to make the greatest advance in terms of distance. The attack was to begin at 5:30 am on Easter Monday, 9 April 1917. By the end of the first day, the 1st Canadian Division had captured all of its first line objectives and the left half of its second line.[34] The next morning by 9:30 am, fresh troops had leap-frogged existing battalions to advance to the third objective line.[35] To permit the troops time to consolidate the third line, the advance halted and the barrage remained stationary for 90 minutes while machine guns were brought forward.[36] Shortly before 1:00 pm, the advance recommenced and, by 2:00 pm, the 1st Canadian Divisions secured their final objective.[37]

The British First Army commander Lieutenant-General Henry Horne ordered the Canadian Corps to relieve I Corps opposite the city of Lens on 10 July 1917, and directed Currie to develop a plan for capturing the city by the end of July 1917.[41] The operation was intended to engage as many German formations as possible and to prevent them from reinforcing the Ypres sector during the Third Battle of Ypres.[42] After examining the area, Currie instead proposed to take the high ground outside the city, marked on allied maps as Hill 70,[43] hold the feature in the expectation of a German counterattack, and inflict casualties by preparing a zone of concentrated artillery and machine gun fire.[44] Currie's plan was implemented successfully, and by the end of the battle, some 20,000 Germans had been killed or wounded at the cost of 9,000 Canadians.[44] The operation was effective in preventing German formations from transferring local men and equipment to Ypres, and Haig believed that the Battle of Hill 70 was one of the finest minor operations of the war.[44]

The Canadian Corps was then transferred from Lens to Ypres to take part in the Battle of Passchendaele. Currie was tasked with continuing the advance started by the now exhausted II Anzac Corps in order to ultimately capture Passchendaele village and gain favourable observation positions and drier winter positions. Currie submitted his provisional operational plan on 16 October and presented a plan with extensive resources made available in reserve. He estimated the attack would result in 16,000 casualties.[45] Currie's preparations included reconnaissance, road construction and a massing of artillery and heavy machine guns.[46] Rather than one mass assault, Currie designed a series of well-prepared, sharp attacks that allowed the Corps to take an objective and then hold it against the inevitable German counterattacks. By 30 October, the Canadians, aided by two British divisions, gained the outskirts of the village in a driving rainstorm, and then held on for five days against intense shelling and counter-attacks, often standing waist deep in mud as they fought. The Canadians' victory came at the cost of 15,654 casualties, including 4,028 killed. Currie's grim casualty prediction had been accurate.[47]

By early 1918, the Canadian Corps was in a state of uncertainty. The Canadian government wanted to expand the Canadian Corps by forming a 5th Division but the BEF wanted the Canadian Corps reorganized to mirror British divisions. British command also intended to integrate American battalions into the depleted corps, which Currie predicted would be a disaster and would destroy the homogeneous structure of the corps.[48] Currie was opposed to all of those measures since he did not view them as being in the best interests of the corps.[49] Currie, with the aid of the Minister of Overseas Military Forces, prevailed against the structural changes. The Canadian Corps retained its original Canadian organizational structure and fought as a homogeneous formation for the entire Hundred Days Offensive.[50]

On 21 March 1918, the Germans launched a major Spring Offensive hoping to force an armistice on their terms, but by the summer their forward momentum had been contained and the Allies prepared to counterattack. In August 1918, when Currie was ordered to move the corps 70 miles (110 km) south to Amiens, the Canadians took pains to camouflage their move. This included sending a radio unit and two battalions to Ypres as a diversion.[51] With no preliminary artillery bombardment at Amiens to warn the Germans, the attack on 8 August was a success. The Canadians were withdrawn from the line, and moved to the Somme, where they participated in the attack on the Hindenburg Line at the Drocourt–Quéant Line on 2 September. The assault resulted in the Germans being overrun along a 7,000-yard (6,400 m) front.[52][failed verification] Historian Denis Winter called the seizure of the Drocourt–Quéant line by the Canadian Corps the "greatest single achievement" of the British Expeditionary Force during the entire war, and praised Currie for his ability to bring an "unprecedented" concentration of artillery and machine gun fire together with flexible infantry sections that were adjusted for the situation.[53] The German Seventeenth Army then retreated behind the flooded Canal du Nord. Currie took three weeks to prepare perhaps his most audacious plan: he suggested the entire corps cross the drier section of the canal on a front of only 2,700 yards (2,500 m).[54] On 27 September, the entire corps moved across the canal as planned, and then through the German lines in a series of planned zig-zag manoeuvres designed to confuse the Germans. Exhausted and demoralized, the German army staged a controlled retreat over the next five weeks. On 10 November, in what was to be his most controversial decision, Currie, under orders to continue to advance, ordered elements of the corps to liberate Mons. On the morning of 11 November, as Currie received orders confirming there would be a general armistice at 11:00 a.m., the capture of Mons was completed.

In December 1918, Currie established the Canadian War Narrative Section to maintain a level of control as to how the Canadian contribution to the Hundred Days Offensive would be documented in print and presented to the public.[55] Tim Cook argues that the Canadian War Narrative Section was an important step in not only recording and presenting the achievements of the Canadian Corps but also in restoring Currie's damaged reputation, which had been battered by Sam Hughes and his supporters in Parliament.[55] Hughes frequently referred to Currie as a butcher.

Currie and family had moved to England in 1915. They returned to Canada following the war, arriving in Halifax on 17 August 1919.[56] No band or crowd received the ship when it docked and when Currie arrived at the Victoria Memorial Building to greet the 13th Canadian Parliament; he received a lukewarm reception.[56][57] Currie was appointed Inspector-General of the Armed Forces and was then promoted to full-ranking general on 10 December, the highest ranking position in the Canadian forces. Currie intended to use the position to reform the military. However, in the post-war period, military funding was cut and Currie encountered significant opposition from the military bureaucracy to organizational changes.[58] Deeply unhappy, Currie retired from the military, and in May 1920 accepted the position of principal and vice-chancellor of McGill University in Montreal.[59]

Currie suffered another stroke on 5 November 1933, and died on 30 November at the age of 57 at Royal Victoria Hospital from bronchial complications brought on by pneumonia.[79] His civilian and military funeral on 5 December was held in Montreal and was the largest to that point in Canadian history. The Times wrote of his funeral: "It was, by common consent, the most impressive funeral ever seen at Montreal" and Robert Borden believed the ceremony "was perhaps more elaborate than at any state or military funeral in the history of Canada".[80] Approximately 150,000 people lined the streets to watch the procession and the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission broadcast the funeral over radio.[81] Those attending the funeral included Lord Bessborough, at the time the Governor-General of Canada, important Canadian politicians, foreign diplomats and representatives of McGill University.[82] No less than 170 organizations sent floral tributes.[83][84] The service was conducted by the Bishop of Montreal at Christ Church Cathedral and was followed by a graveside service presided by Archdeacon (Hon. Colonel) John Almond, a wartime Director of the Canadian Chaplain Service for the Canadian Expeditionary Force.[80][85] Eight general officers acted as pallbearers.[82] The funeral procession received a 17-gun salute.[86] In London a memorial service was conducted in Westminster Abbey on the same day as the funeral in Montreal, which was filled to capacity.[79] Memorial services were held elsewhere in Canada also. On 3 December, 7,000 persons attended a memorial service for Currie at Toronto's Arena Gardens.[87] Currie was initially interred in a family plot at Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal. However, three years after his death, Currie's remains were moved to a more prominent site surmounted by a cross of sacrifice.

Currie was survived by his wife Lucy, and a son and daughter. Lucy was left in some financial difficulty following her husband's death when McGill decided it could not afford to continue paying her a portion of his salary. In 1935, the Canadian government finally recognized his service to Canada by granting $50,000 to his estate.

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Summary/Conclusion

Today's self-actualizing, war students and operational artists--the Gavins, Chamberlains, Shermans, Pattons, Curries, Monashes, even the fictional Damons etc. have been forced out of the service and the public imagination by computer-empowered bureaucratic liars. Liars that LIE-BEL with LIE-BULLshit.

These milWOKETARDS seem digitally immune to even military defeat. 

John 3:16

Semper Airborne!

James Bond is REAL.