WWI Post

I was most impressed that the British actually passed on Maxim's machine gun. I bet they were kicking themselves after that one. They originally passed on the tank too, so who ever was in charge of research and development for the Brits definately needed to be fired. Tanks would have been extremely useful once the trenchlines had been formed, like at Cambrai. Try as they might, the British couldn't miss out on every technology from the start, and luckily for them they did have planes at the war's outset. And it turns out the German's zepplins were suprisingly ineffective. If a raid on London only yields seven deaths, the psychological benefits had better be profound. Once British planes starting scoring kills, I would have pulled the plug on that program. Anyway, I was attracted to the technological sections of the website, since that's what our book puts the least emphasis on. I was definately satisfied with the website as a whole.