When the War to End All Wars Isn't.

By the summer 1918, the British Army (and the dominions) had effectively mastered the coordination of infantry, artillery and armour, successively defeating the Germans in a series of battles from Amiens to the armistice. After the war, rather than building from this position, the British Army wrapped up the Tank Corps and downsized back to a colonial police force. This was understandable, considering the economic condition of the British Empire after the war, but they failed to utilize the reams of theory developed in the 1920s and 30s when the time came to rearm in the 1930s. Not only did they enter the Second World War without a developed armour doctrine, they entered it without a consistant military doctrine at all. The result was, while the basic infantryman was well trained, while the guns were good and while the tanks, if not excellent, werent terrible, the army had forgotten how to use those together. The Germans had not. The 1940 campaign in Western Europe was the result. (In the interest of fairness, pretty much all of this also applies to the French.)

Average HOI4 campaign

Props to General Sir John Monash, the driving force behind combined arms warfare in 1918 and the last man to be knighted on the battlefield by a British monarch.

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