BlairWitch749
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I agree with pretty much everything in this post. The one thing I'd note is that measured on a purely military, as opposed to holistic, analysis Russia winds up performing the best of all the Allies, but the political cost of this is what ultimately disintegrated the Tsarist state. Russia's armies did well in maneuver situations where their leadership tended to be better, their failings against Germany were exacerbated by the Lev Mekhlis types winding up fighting Germany where Russia's more competent generals usually wound up facing Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans.
I would disagree,
the best fighters were in the entente were the French (with the Canadians as a close 2nd)
the french army was regarded by the Germans as the hardest obstacle to overcome, and by the time they put a grown up in charge (petain) they had largely worked out the kinks and became a formidable fighting force where the British and Russians still had severe organizational and tactical flaws in their forces